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...does, maybe it will take the sting out of Reagan's decision to snub the festivities. President Andrew Jackson paid a visit to Harvard's 200th birthday party in 1836, President Grover Cleveland stopped by for the 250th celebration in 1886, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 took part in the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936. With Harvard men Donald T. Regan '40 and Caspar W. Weinberger '38 among his inner circle of advisors and planning to attend the ceremony themselves, 350th bigwigs counted on Reagan's appearance at Friday morning's convocation on "The University in a Changing World...
September of 1936 saw President James Bryant Conant '14, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 and 11,000 other alumni and friends of the University gather to commemorate the College's tercentenary Theater. The 300 was an international event, perhaps the most lavish university party in the country's history, with 2400 scholars from around the world attending along with representatives from 530 universities, colleges and learned societies...
Roosevelt, the grandson of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt `04, labels Kennedy and himself "the, real men behind the famous names" in a $20,000 radio spot that criticizes Kennedy for condoning campaign contributions from political action committees, (PACs). Campaign spokesman Chuck McDermott said Roosevelt has not yet accepted any PAC funding...
...little hope, though, is rolling into Sac City. After numerous meetings with an industrial search firm in Des Moines, the town leaders have turned up a hot prospect for new business: Fibercraft Inc., a division of Equity Automotive Corp. of Delano, Minn. The company will take over a 37,500-sq.-ft. warehouse abandoned in 1982 by Lear Siegler's Noble Division. Starting next month Fibercraft will turn out fiber-glass camping trailers and initially provide 40 precious jobs. In two years the payroll could rise to 100 people. "Everybody's excited," says Marilyn Hobbs, executive director of the Chamber...
...When I voted in 1932 for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democratic platform pledged a 25% cut in federal spending, and he campaigned on a return of authority to the people who had lost it to the Government. I went on and was a loyal Democrat. But on the mashed-potato circuit I began to talk more and more about how Government had expanded and was infringing on liberties and interfering with private enterprise. One day I came home from a speaking tour, and I said to Nancy, 'I go out there and make these speeches, which I believe...