Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hemisphere neighbor nations it hardly knew. Rockefeller put the blame on the State Department for not following up U.S. business entries into Latin America with higher-type diplomacy, said as much in a report he forwarded to White House Chamberlain Harry Hopkins. Hopkins read the report, showed it to Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt asked the 32-year-old Rockefeller to visit him. Upshot of the call: Rockefeller's appointment as coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and the beginning of an intermittent 15-year government career...
Harriman abandoned the Republican Party in 1928 to vote for Al Smith, four years later pushed for the presidential election of his fellow squire, Franklin Roosevelt. After a series of Washington jobs in the NRA '305, Harriman spent 1941 to 1943 in London and Moscow as F.D.R.'s special-missions contact and Lend-Lease expediter, was Ambassador to Russia (1943-46), then to the Court of St. James's (1946), and Truman's Secretary of Commerce in the same year. Two years later, he was Marshall Plan ambassador in Europe, then Special Assistant to the President...
...father, Leonard W. Labaree, is Farnham Professor of History at Yale, presently engaged in editing the Benjamin Franklin Papers. So Labaree was born at New Haven, and thence began a journey which has led ultimately to the Winthrop House doorstep--but by the scenic route...
...they have a marvelous colonial blown-glass harmonica--and not one of those Benjamin Franklin mechanized jobs either. Only one glass broken... no, Corning won't do it... I said they ought to try Steuben...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 was, like most of his Groton classmates, a rather lukewarm scholar in college, but what he derived from Harvard was of perhaps greater significance in shaping his future career than what he might have gleaned from the lectures of Santayana and James...