Word: franklins
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...tech measuring tools and methods at their disposal. As a result, they say, Proenza has needlessly divided the Hurricane Center staff and has called into question the forecasting acumen of those who disagree with him. "Bill has poisoned the atmosphere" and "doesn't respect the staff," Center forecaster James Franklin told a press conference today. Proenza is trying to shrug off the criticism, characterizing the rift as more of a collegial disagreement. "I'm still head of the National Hurrican Center," he said Friday, adding he has no plans to resign...
USAGE Bush's father has given the fewest pardons since Franklin Pierce, but W. isn't far behind, with 113 in two terms...
...Millard Fillmore headed the anti-immigrant American Party ticket in 1856. Some New York candidates went straight from the campaign trail to the footnotes--Horatio Seymour, anyone?--but four New Yorkers managed to win eight presidential elections: Martin Van Buren (1836), Grover Cleveland (1884, 1892), Theodore Roosevelt (1904) and Franklin Roosevelt...
...Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful opponent in 1944, Thomas Dewey, ran again in 1948, when he famously did not defeat Harry Truman. And then the parade of New York presidential candidates stopped. A number of ambitious New York politicians looked like presidential timber, but Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Representative Jack Kemp failed to win their parties' nominations; Governor Mario Cuomo never declared his candidacy. Colin Powell was a flash in the pan; Donald Trump was a flash in his own brainpan. No New Yorker has headed a presidential ticket in almost 60 years --the longest...
...DIANABILIA She graces everything from coins to coasters. The Franklin Mint's $195 "Elvis dress" Di doll is a best seller...