Word: delanoe
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...WHEN Franklin Delano Roosevelt won in 1932, he wasn't messing around with this businesslike two-name stuff. His fifth cousin/uncle-in-law Teddy had called himself TR, and the new Roosevelt thought that would be cool. But FR sounded a lot like "afar" or "fart," and he was an aristocrat, so he kept the "Delano...
Fine. But whatever happened to William Howard Taft? And John Fitzgerald Kennedy? And Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Why doesn't anyone ever use middle names--or at least initials--anymore...
...last time a sitting governor ran successfully for president was 1932. It was New York Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...pool does have a long and colorful history. It was built in the early 1900s for Westmorely Court, one of a group of private dormatories referred as the "Gold Coast" dorms because of their wealthy undergraduates. Numerous well-known Harvard graduates, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 and John Lithgow '67, were among users of the pool...
...think about the situation in reverse, you realize how ludicrous that idea is," he says. "Imagine that during the depression, [U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04] had approached Stalin and said, 'Give us $20 billion to create a larger state intervention.' The idea is laughable, obviously...