Word: franklins
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt's critics once tried to get at him through his dog, Fala, claiming the Navy had been dispatched, at great public expense, after Fala was supposedly left behind on a remote island. The attack backfired--the GOP hadn't factored in the popularity of a pooch with his own secretary to answer fan mail. America is canine-crazy, which is why a President's best friend can sometimes be the only one he needs...
...five pillars - new rules for Wall Street, new initiatives in education, alternative energy and health care, and eventually budget savings that would bring down the national debt - which did sound a bit prosaic. Democratic politicians have been promising one or another, if not all, of the above since Franklin Roosevelt reinvented American government in the 1930s. But Obama was making his case in the midst of a national crisis, at a moment when it seemed possible that he might enact much of what he was seeking. And he was talking about far more than a new set of policies...
...scare into its hosts during the final inning, getting the tying run to second base. Rouches singled with one out before junior first baseman Dan Zailskas worked the count to 2-0 to chase Gormley. Zailskas earned a walk, and a double steal by pinch runners junior Sam Franklin and freshman J.T. Thomes gave the Crimson hope. But Kimball struck out the final two batters to pick up his first of two saves on the day.—Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...academics or public service officials. Some of his famous students included Henry A. Kissinger ’50, Michael Walzer, and Charles H. Tilly ’50. Before studying at Harvard, Beer was a staff member of the Democratic National Committee, and occasionally wrote speeches for former President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 and 1936. Active in American politics, Beer was chairman of Americans for Democratic Action during his tenure at Harvard from 1959 to 1962. He also actively opposed student rebellions at Harvard during the late sixties.Beer was elected president of the American Political Science Association...
...Douglas said. “We didn’t take advantage of a couple times when we had runners in scoring position,”Sophomore Dillon O’Neill had the best day at the plate for Harvard, going 3-for-4 after replacing sophomore Sam Franklin in center field. Sophomore catcher Tyler Albright also collected a pair of hits. But the main threat for the Crimson in the mid-week tuneup proved to be senior slugger Tom Stack-Babich, who continued to torment opposing pitching with a solo shot to right field in the sixth.The Harvard...