Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodore Roosevelt was guest of honor, last week, at a reception in her late husband's birthplace, No. 28 East 20th St., Manhattan. Plans were announced to raise a $250,000 endowment fund for the maintenance of the Roosevelt birthplace; a $50,000 mortgage on the house was ceremoniously burned. Then, she sailed for Switzerland to visit her son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Derby...
Great traveler that he was, Theodore Roosevelt's world-wanderings have been rivaled, perhaps eclipsed, by those of his widow. Since his death, on Jan. 6, 1919, Mrs. Roosevelt has traveled some 115,372 miles, as follows...
...Committee as it now stands is composed of the following men: Professor G. G. Wilson, chairman, Professor G. H. Chase '96, chairman, protem, W. J. Bingham, '16, treasurer, Dean Willard Sperry, A. S. Johnson '85, R. H. Holt, '11, George Wiggelsworth '74, Winslow Carlton '29, James Roosevelt '30 and J. H. Lane...
Into American political life Franklin Roosevelt has brought something of which his countrymen may be proud. In the beginning of his career he fought machine politics and laid the foundation for the reorganization of his party, winning for it the confidence of the people of the State. Later he was called to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where he had his share in the handling of peculiarly difficult war-time problems. Then came an attack of illness, after which he cut short his convalescence in order to take up the fight for his party in the campaign...
...their first twenty-five years out of college attain the position which Mr. Roosevelt holds in the affection of his fellow-citizens. The Class of 1904 is peculiarly fortunate in being able to offer as Chief Marshal a man of his calibre...