Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What set Detective Lippmann to brooding on the mystery was a Washington rumor that after Christmas President Roosevelt will declare his intention about a third term. Arousing Amateur Lippmann's well-bred scorn were the feverish efforts of other sleuths to solve the case by strong-arm methods. To ask that the President declare now whether he will or will not run again, said he, is as crude as the third degree; in fact, it is "no more than a blunt demand that Mr. Roosevelt give himself up and confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem...
...California loudly called for the third term, while pro-New Deal Columnist Raymond Clapper warned that the President would not be "playing fair with the American people in perpetuating the uncertainty regarding . . . his intentions," while candidates Democratic and Republican tried to focus attention on the next President, President Roosevelt scattered new clues to confuse political sleuths...
...Laying the cornerstone of the new Franklin Roosevelt Library on his mother's estate at Hyde Park, the President announced the library would be completed by next July, that his papers would be available there to authorized persons by July 1941. Since the Library will hold 6,000,000 documents, covering the President's career from the time he was New York State Senator, this looked like an indication that he would not run. No U. S. President has made his correspondence accessible to students and biographers while holding office. But political sleuths pondered: cataloguing the collection will...
Detective Lippmann's analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's motives: "Last year, when his party was split, his personal prestige at low ebb ... I should imagine that he may have considered seriously making a fight for a third nomination. . . . But now the situation has been changed, not by the war but by Mr. Roosevelt's reaction to the war. . . . The war is ... a subject on which, because his mind is clear, his convictions are resolute. The war therefore has brought out the best that was in him, and he has become what he might always have been...
Little wonder was it when Franklin Roosevelt came to Washington with his New Deal that Pierce Butler was regarded as head hatchet-man for the conservatives. The score-sheet bore out this feeling: On the 14 major New Deal Cases, Pierce Butler voted 13 times against, once...