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It was exactly a century ago, on Jan. 30, 1882, that the man who worked this transformation was born to wealth and ease in a Hudson River estate at Hyde Park, N.Y. Destined for Groton, Harvard, the law and a life of comfortable obscurity, he became instead not only the...
Roosevelt's penchant for experimenting guided his chief measure for industrial revival, the National Industrial Recovery Act, and his choice of the man he put in command of it, General Hugh ("Ironpants") Johnson. A profane and red-faced ex-cavalryman, an admirer of Mussolini and good bourbon, West Pointer...
Rawlings, who must now confront corruption and bring the economy under control, is an admirer of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi; he once described Libya as a "revolutionary dream." Rawlings has replaced the Limann government with a Provisional National Defense Council and plans a support system of Libyan-style local...
A one-act play set in a union hall, "Lefty" dramatizes the taxicab strike that plagued New York in the spring of 1934. Lefty is the union leader, for whom the drivers are waiting before they take a vote on whether to strike. In a series of flashbacks, several of...
Key mayoral races in two fast-growing Sun Belt cities remain to be decided in weeks to come. The front runners amply reflect the preoccupations of the Reagan era. Houston Controller Kathryn Whitmire, 35, is running against another Democrat, Harris County Sheriff Jack Heard, on a platform of sound fiscal...