Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor, a small, baldish, informal man who pays no attention to the heavy titles and gold braid-Rear Admiral, Surgeon General of the U. S. Navy-conferred on him by a grateful President. After nearly seven years of checking up on Mr. Roosevelt's health, Admiral Mclntire last week told the President he could let himself go. This meant that Mr. Roosevelt could have that second dish of ice cream he often craves...
Admiral Mclntire looked on his handiwork last week, found it good. In a few days Franklin Roosevelt will be 58 (Jan. 30). Knocking on wood, Dr. Mclntire noted that this winter the President has had no colds-last winter he was plagued with them. His health, said the doctor, is at least equal to that of the average man of his age; his physical energy much greater...
Crises, wars, politics notwithstanding, Mr. Roosevelt sleeps eight hours nightly-usually from midnight. He does a lot of reading in bed. Exercise and fresh air, difficult problems for him always, are still difficult. Thrice a week he swims in the fresh green waters of the White House pool; daily he is massaged. But fresh air is another thing. He rarely goes to church of a Sunday, and such things as Christmas tree lighting, Gridiron dinners, etc. come too seldom. So Dr. Mclntire encourages him to travel, likes to get the President off on a trip every two or three months...
...Last week the President...
...Last week in and" around Franklin County, Miss., whites had something more to do, and Negroes prudently stayed away from the stores. At Meadville, Hamburg and White Apple, at Knoxville and Little Springs and Bogue Chitto, something more was in the air than a January breeze. Hard-eyed white men got out their guns, went hunting in the swamps along the Homochitto River. Mistuh P. A. Cooper and his bloodhounds arrived from Brandon. Major T. B. Birdsong brought a troop of National Guardsmen. A hunt was on for two black bucks who supposedly had killed a white constable. A cold...