Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What moved Joe Stalin and his Earl Browder to doff their democratic whiskers was the Russo-German pact and the consequent reaction against the U. S. S. R., in which Franklin Roosevelt shared last week (see p. 15). The Browder speech last week was the first realistic thing which he and his party have done since the Stalin & Hitler marriage of convenience. But Browder and friends, free again to take up their old cries of international class war, down-with-capitalism, etc., were not in an altogether happy position. To portray Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime as the flower...
...Franklin Roosevelt a liberal? Few could agree whether he is or not. But nobody doubted that he prized the liberal label; fortnight ago he defined a radical as a man standing on his head, a conservative as a man standing still, a reactionary as a man going backwards, a liberal as a man who used his legs, hands and head. No liberal could agree with such a crude distinction, but liberals would look pretty foolish denying that they were people who used their legs, hands and head...
...Long live Comrade Stalin!" The long-suffering Premier last week had no trouble and in his secondary capacity as Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs made an extremely long and rambling state-of-the-world speech in which he ticked off Turkey, Germany, Great Britain and France, Japan, Finland and Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Last week Biochemist Paul Leland Kirk of the University of California and a graduate student, Clifton Bennett, announced a sure, swift, new syphilis test. A sore trial for pathologists, the speedy test, invented in 1935 by Dr. George Franklin Laughlen of Toronto, Ont., was fussed over for four years before it could be made practical for general use. Using the new technique and "Laughlen antigen" in 150 syphilis blood samples, Professor Kirk called all the shots, made no false diagnoses...
...almost seven years Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been pretty much his own Secretary of the Navy. Last week Columnist Raymond Clapper chided him for being his own Secretary of State. And last week the President himself stepped out in front as his own Secretary of something like Military Economics. At press conference he laid down a new theory: the U. S. ought to have a Pacific coast steel industry. His arguments...