Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe '50 and '51 will become the first women to join the newspaper of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Cleveland Amory '39, Robert F. Bradford '33 and James Bryant Conant '14. These were all CRIMSON candidates who made the staff...
...that future, he promised a program not unlike Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. It included more irrigation and flood control projects, expanded rural electrification and soil conservation, protection and development of forests, oil reserves, mineral resources. To build the West's power supply he promised new river projects on the Columbia and Missouri. To keep it all humming, he promised to appoint, "with great pleasure," a Secretary of the Interior from the West...
...lost whatever labor backing he had once had by heading the get-tough-with-labor wing in the Taft-Hartley debates. He had baffled the farmers by plying them with abstruse economic theories. He had alienated many a Republican regular by jumping party lines to vote for Franklin Roosevelt...
That revolt could be dated roughly from October 1947, when President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights dropped a match into the dry and prickly underbrush of Southern pride and fear. Franklin Roosevelt had always been careful to keep any such brush fires from spreading. He had imposed FEPC in 1941 by executive order, as a temporary wartime measure, which had angered the South. The South had flared up over Mrs. Roosevelt's well-meaning efforts on behalf of the Negro. But F.D.R., who did more to impose federal authority on the states than any man since Lincoln...
Harvard's harriers trailed Tufts and Holy Cross yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park, lifting the lid on their 1948 cross country schedule. In addition to a slow course, a truck the runners were following led them 170 yards out of the way and a Tufts freshman fainted just after the start of his race, which went to the Crimson Yardlings...