Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pomp, plush and protocol. It began with a night at Blair House as the guest of President Truman, two state dinners, a trip to Mount Vernon, tea with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Then came a quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should have to see America for the first time...
Father Unity. Pieck had helped found the German Communist Party in 1919, has been a faithful party wheelhorse ever since. When Hitler came to power, he found a home-away-from-home in Moscow. While Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, at Yalta, discussed Germany's future with their ally Stalin, Pieck was busy making speeches to German P.W.s in Russia, forming the nucleus of a future German Communist regime. When the Red Army moved into Berlin, Pieck was flown into the city by special Russian plane. He had work to do there...
Among the candidates proposed for the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize last spring were Columnists Drew Pearson and Eleanor Roosevelt, Argentine President Peron (with wife Eva) and Britain's Lord Boyd Orr, former head of U.N.'s Food...
Justice Frankfurter graduated from the Law School in 1906. After a brief careor as United States Attorney, he returned to the Law School in 1914 as a professor and remained until President Roosevelt appointed him to the Supreme Court...
They include Professor Cam, Mrs. Roosevelt, Princess Wilhemina of the Netherlands, Senster Margaret C. Smith, President Sarah G. Blanding of Vassar, and President Margaret Clapp of Wellesley...