Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt, now in no mood to hurry, announced he did not intend to appoint a successor to Justice Butler until next January...
...national tour. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft plodded through the Midwest. Michigan's Vandenberg sawed wood, kept mum in Grand Rapids. Texas newshawks held an "Evil Old Men's" dinner in honor of John Garner. In Baltimore, Montana's Senator Wheeler said pretty things of Franklin Roosevelt. In New York City, Thomas E. Dewey polished up a GOPresidential bandwagon, prepared to start it rolling in Minneapolis...
...Cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo praised Franklin Roosevelt to the 1940 skies, demanded a third term for him. Mr. McAdoo's eulogy (he is the New Deal beneficiary of a $25,000 job as head of the American President Lines-second highest paid Government post) roused no ripple of surprise in Washington...
...John Kieran, omniscient sports columnist for the New York Times; grumpish F. P. A. (Franklin Pierce Adams), old-school New York Post columnist "who can't remember a thing that's happened in the last ten years, but remembers everything before that"; glib Oscar Levant, composer, super-pianist, gag-stacked Broad-wayfarer-are acknowledged by listeners as U. S.'s most knowing know-it-alls. Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman is famous for beating the experts to the pun while he puts the pick of 75,000 questions submitted each week by listeners...
...prize was added last month. First winner, on Oct. 24, was Prisoner 12,973, Connecticut State Prison. 12,973's poser: "This man was an Assemblyman, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor, President of the United States." The man: Theodore Roosevelt. Guest Louis Untermeyer and the others said Franklin Roosevelt...