Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Best minds have often contended that Egypt ought not to have a Magna Carta. For example, Citizen Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at London in 1910, warmed the cockles of British hearts by shouting: "If you feel that you have no right to be in Egypt, if you do not wish to establish and keep order there, why, then, by all means get out of Egypt! . . . Some nation must govern Egypt. . . . I hope and believe that you will decide that it is your duty to be that nation!" Citizen Roosevelt had just topped off his famed African hunting expedition with an Egyptian...
George Bruce Cortelyou, 67, progressively Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor, Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury, since 1909 president of New York's Consolidated Gas Co., is especially alert against gas asphyxiation among his customers and generally interested in overcoming suffocation from any cause. Last week, after a gas company superintendent had successfully resuscitated a man unconscious 383 hours in a local hospital, Mr. Cortelyou donated the city a dozen resuscitators, costing $3,000 each...
...Roosevelt, who had carefully avoided Prohibition in his own speech, characterized the Wickersham proposal as "speculative" and moved across the ballroom to take a seat among the Dry Southern Governors. Observers got the impression that, as a Presidential candidate for 1932, he had already commenced to "play safe" on this issue...
...Governor Roosevelt was "definitely disturbed" by "hot weather stories" about his presidential candidacy. Later in the week he issued a statement which the politically-wise took none too seriously: "I am not a candidate for President .... Purely speculative and wholly false insinuations about any consideration which I am giving to national candidacy. . . . This [Governorship of New York] is a man's-sized job which takes all my time...
...Fortnight ago Director William H. Allen of the New York Institute of Public Service petitioned New York's Governor Roosevelt to remove Mayor Walker from office on the ground of incompetency. Playfully temporized the Governor: "I have received so many letters in the last few days asking for the removal of every public official from the President of the U. S. down to, dog, catcher that it will take me a few days to read them...