Word: franklin
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...rooster and a duck--take to the sky in the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon. On Nov. 21, Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes drift over Paris in a Montgolfier, achieving the first manned free flight (2). Asked what good are balloons, U.S. envoy Ben Franklin replies, "What good is a newborn baby?" The English Channel is crossed in 1785, and ballooning soon becomes the stuff of daredevils (3). But in 1794 the world's first air force is born: warring France uses tethered balloons to observe and direct troops, a tactic later employed...
...sees worth in some or all of the causes our national dialogue has embraced, it seems impossible to justify the behavior of the Race Advisory Board with regard to the most important race-related issue of our time: affirmative action. Early in the supposed discourse, John Hope Franklin, the chair of the board, refused to hear from opponents of affirmative action. Franklin stated that these pariahs "don't speak the same language" as more enlightened thinkers such as himself. Since these remarks there has been a hailstorm of criticism, and President Clinton has pressured the board to host more opposing...
...FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1941 Leading America into the war against the Axis...
...FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1932 Promising a New Deal amid the Depression...
...FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1934 Basking in popular--and electoral--approval...