Word: franklins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the job. Tom Dewey said he didn't want it himself, but wouldn't yet say whom he had in mind (one possible choice: Republican Foreign Policy Adviser John Foster Dulles). On the Democratic side, there was immediate talk of the party's wonder boy, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who was elected to the House only six weeks ago. But Junior said he'd rather see it go to ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who is 71. Lehman said he'd like to think it over a while...
...York Post Home News (circ. 385,151), which has 25 columnists already, last week added one more. The newcomer: Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., 31, who won a Pulitzer prize for his Age of Jackson (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945), is now at work on the Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt. An associate professor of history at Harvard, Schlesinger is writing a weekly column from the vantage point of a "historian looking at the news...
Died. George Franklin Slosson, 95, for half a century after the Civil War one of the world's top billiard players who won, with his 50? cue, six international titles between 1877 and 1908; in Boston...
...them (Vinson and Rutledge, who had served on the Court of Appeals) had had any previous experience on the bench. As Supreme Court justices they were young (average age, 59)-Seven of them, the largest number of appointees by one President since Washington, owed their jobs to Franklin Roosevelt. The Nine in the order of their appointments...
...When Franklin Roosevelt died, the Patroon Broadcasting Co. in Albany, N.Y. asked the Federal Communications Commission if it might use the call letters WFDR. The FCC, deciding that the President's initials should not be identified with a commercial venture, said no. But last week in Manhattan, a nonprofit, FM station called WFDR went...