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...another strong-willed President grappled with the Supreme Court. Franklin D. Roosevelt, vexed that his New Deal should be hindered by judges who still lived in an expanding-continent era, proposed to pack the Court with six younger judges. He lost his battle...
...systematically explored its northland, not only for its resources (nickel, copper, lumber, coal, reindeer, fish, fur), but in an ambitious effort eventually to open for year-round navigation the narrow passage of ice-choked water, now navigable only in summer, which fringes the tundras just south of the Arctic Pack. If that Northeast Passage were open. Russia would have an all-Russian sea route from its European frontier to the Pacific, 3,000 miles shorter than the 9,000-mile Odessa-Vladivostok route, and would fulfill a dream of Peter the Great's to make a place for Russia...
Main confessions in Life's a Circus concern Lady Eleanor's makeshift life. Tame boarding school was relieved somewhat by frequent transfers, midnight escapes, one harum-scarum period in the family of a Belgian baron, when she turned a pack of Irish wolfhounds loose in the crowded ball room of the British Embassy...
...from what Mr. Roosevelt warned was the lowest figure that could be attained without impairing efficiency. Declared Representative Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia, member of the Committee: "We believe these reductions have been made . . . without seriously crippling any needed Government activity." Wielder of many an ice pack in the past, fleshy Clifton Woodrum has taken an oath, and made the rest of his sub-committee swear, not to let any bill get past the committee if its appropriation exceeds the President's budget estimate. Last week Congressman Woodrum outdid himself...
...worldly possessions but also of the trials, the troubles and the decisions. There had been something rather enjoyable about it, an exhilarating feeling of irresponsibility which I, for one, appreciated; I shall always remember the joy of having no luggage to worry about, and no boxes to pack. As I went ashore I felt just the faintest feeling of hesitation at the idea of plunging back into the world. But it was only momentary, for once the world was round me again there was room for no feelings but those of pleasure and thankfulness...