Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Ruskin Graham '30, of West Roxbury, was elected Ibis, John Swope '30, of Ossining, New York was chosen treasurer, and Robert Franklin Walker Smith '30, of Evanston, Illinois, was selected as secretary at the same meeting...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 of Albany, N. Y., was appointed Commencement Day marshal for 1929 at a meeting on Monday night of the Directors of the Alumni Association. He was notified of his election by telephone yesterday and has accepted. The selection was in accord with the tradition that the marshal shall be a member of the class which celebrates on Commencement Day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college...
...selecting Franklin D. Roosevelt as Commencement Marshal for 1929 the Alumni Association has made an eminently fitting choice. Prominent in undergraduate affairs and at one time President of the CRIMSON, Mr. Roosevelt has continued to take an active interest in Harvard since his graduation. From 1918 to 1924, years of special importance in the development of Harvard policy, he served as an Overseer of Harvard College...
Into American political life Franklin Roosevelt has brought something of which his countrymen may be proud. In the beginning of his career he fought machine politics and laid the foundation for the reorganization of his party, winning for it the confidence of the people of the State. Later he was called to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where he had his share in the handling of peculiarly difficult war-time problems. Then came an attack of illness, after which he cut short his convalescence in order to take up the fight for his party in the campaign...
...last week, to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York wrote Representative John C. Box of Texas, new Democratic whip...