On this day in 1938: Accepting an honorary degree at the University of North Carolina (three years after the school gave one to his wife, Eleanor), President Franklin D. Roosevelt shrugs off New Deal losses in the recent elections: “The liberal forces have often been killed and buried, with the inevitable result that they have […]
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FDR: ‘Liberal forces have often been killed and buried…’
Posted in On This Day, tagged fdr, grilled millionaire, voit gilmore, woollen gymnasium on December 5, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
How to ‘land a whale on a trout hook’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged carolina political union, franklin roosevelt, grilled millionaire, marvin mcintyre, voit gilmore on December 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Voit Gilmore, 20… began working last summer to get the foremost U. S. political orator of the age down to Chapel Hill to address [the nonpartisan, undergraduate Carolina Political Union], which prides itself on paying no honorariums and on cross-questioning its speakers when they are through. “In October he drove up to Washington, following a […]
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