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...York for 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. And she hoofed in the chorus of shows with scores by some pretty sharp tunesmiths: Harold Rome (Sing Out the News), Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein (Very Warm for May ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (Higher and Higher) and Cole Porter (Panama Hattie). In three of those shows she shared stage space with Vera Ellen, who would join Allyson in MGM musicals; in another she played with Eve Arden, who'd supply comic vinegar to Allyson's sugar in '40s Hollywood...
...conservationist, creating Crater Lake National Park in Oregon (the first of five such parks he designates) and proclaiming Pelican Island, Fla., the first federal bird reservation. (He will set up 50 more.) Other highlights include his July 4, 1903, "Square Deal" speech in Springfield, Ill., and the treaty with Panama to build the Panama Canal...
Edith inspect the partly built Panama Canal--the first time a President has left the U.S. while in office. On Dec. 10, T.R. wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese War; he is the first American Nobel laureate. Finally, on Dec. 16, 1907, T.R. dispatches the "Great White Fleet" on a round-the-world voyage that he believes is "the most important service that I rendered to peace...
...travels to South America, where he gives lectures and explores Brazil's "River of Doubt." He nearly dies, but later says, "I had to go. It was my last chance to be a boy." After he returns to the U.S., war breaks out in Europe, and the Panama Canal opens to traffic. The U.S. enters World War I in April 1917; 15 months later, T.R.'s son Quentin, 20, is killed in France. Devastated, Roosevelt declines to run (again) for Governor of New York. On Jan. 6, 1919, T.R. dies in his sleep at Sagamore Hill of a coronary embolism...
...from those of Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush, all owe something to his example. When Congress did nothing to curb the power of the trusts--huge monopolistic corporations--Roosevelt simply directed his Justice Department to start bringing suits. When Congress balked at embarking on the Panama Canal, Teddy found a way to go forward. "I took the Isthmus," he later explained, "started the canal and then left Congress--not to debate the canal, but to debate me." He added dryly, "But while the debate goes on, the canal does too." No one would ever have...