Word: fdr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the Roosevelt years, it was only the Faculty, the Law School, the GSAS and Radcliffe who put their faith in the Democrat. The rest of the University defeated "that man" soundly every time they had their chance, however vicariously. In the later terms, however, some of this FDR support was also found among commuters, Adams House men and Kirkland House...
...that the reform Democratic movement has wilted, Stevensonians and independents have nowhere to go. Racial minorities have greater political awareness and less devotion to the Democrats, thanks to the civil rights revolution and the fading of FDR's memory. Some labor leaders, too, are not completely happy with the Democrats. If these three groups were brought together under the Liberal banner, the party's voting strength could surpass that of the Republican in New York City...
...Klux Klan and in favor of Al Smith for President. Neither position was popular in Texas, but he won anyway. In the Senate, Connally backed most of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, but he refused to vote for the National Industrial Recovery Act, battled fiercely against FDR's 1937 effort to pack the Supreme Court. In 1938 Connally led a filibuster to defeat an antilynching bill, claimed it violated states' rights. "I am against the lynching of any man," he said. "It is murder. But I am also against lynching the Constitution of the United States...
Born in Austria, Frankfurter served on the Law School faculty from 1914 to 1939. He was an unofficial adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt for the first six years of FDR's administration before the President appointed him to the Supreme Court...
Both men met with U.S. Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics on leave, while in India. Freidel participated in ceremonies honoring Franklin D. Roosevelt in New Delhi on Jan. 29, when the ambassador's new residence was designated "the Roosevelt House" on the occasion of FDR's birthday...