Word: hesse
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...priorities, but even he might have mixed feelings about throwing his weight around before he takes office. In that respect, the stalemate is a bit reminiscent of the economic crisis Franklin D. Roosevelt faced in 1932 as President-elect, says Brookings Institution historian Stephen Hess. While Roosevelt could have done more to step in, he chose to wait to take office and exercise his full power - making a clean break and effectively laying all the blame on the previous Administration of Herbert Hoover. As Jonathan Alter writes in his book The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph...
...extensive network of former colleagues and associates, and did so somewhat haphazardly, under pressure from demanding tasks - such as rescuing the country from utter economic failure. Roosevelt's planning-on-the fly led to the creation of ad hoc "agencies outside the departmental framework" as former Presidential adviser Stephen Hess wrote in his book Organizing the Presidency, - a bureaucratic mess that may have been avoided had Roosevelt's transition process been better planned...
...seeing their own reflections are beginning to cry betrayal. The people in Obama's movement feel they have an open line directly to him, and these days many want their objections heeded. "It's a wake-up call on how much wiggle room he has," says presidential scholar Stephen Hess...
...different is Denis Leary the dad from Denis Leary the comic? Maria Hess WILMINGTON...
...aspect of porcelain that people are not familiar with, and try to show people who are not interested in porcelain at all that you might think you know everything about it, but if you dig a little deeper you will find this rich history,” curator Heather Hess says. This history includes the fact that, in the 18th century, Chinese porcelain was known in Europe as “white gold.” “There were strict secrets on how to create Chinese porcelain, so European scientists and alchemists attempted for hundreds of years...