Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the President's office, Board Chairman Carroll Daugherty, New Dealing professor of business economics at Northwestern University, polished his rimless glasses. Judge Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser to Franklin Roosevelt, removed his hat from his large, pompadoured head. David Cole, Paterson, N.J. lawyer and veteran mediator, dressed in a well-draped tan suit, paused to pass a word with reporters. Then the three of them went in to the President to discuss their findings and point out their salient conclusions...
Dulles knew he was facing an uphill fight, even though Candidate Lehman had gotten himself in the doghouse with New York's Catholics by taking Eleanor Roosevelt's part in her controversy over school aid with Cardinal Spellman (TIME, Aug. 1). But if Harry Truman enters the New York campaign himself, as he had implied he would, Candidate Dulles will get his chance to argue the definition of statism again-at close range and with more specific application to the works of Harry Truman's Fair Deal...
Wiley Rutledge had been sitting on the U.S. Court of Appeals for nearly four years when he was summoned one day to the White House. "Wiley," said President Roosevelt, "we had a number of candidates for the court who were highly qualified but they didn't have geography-you have that...
With Lausche out, the field was open but the crop was poor. The C.I.O. wanted Murray Danforth Lincoln, a lanky, transplanted Yankee, executive secretary of Ohio's Farm Bureau Federation. The trouble with Lincoln, who had voted from the beginning for Franklin Roosevelt, was that he was a registered Republican...
Married. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 35, third son of the late President, New Dealing freshman Representative from New York; and Suzanne Perrin, 28, blonde Manhattan socialite and exMarine; he for the second time; in Manhattan...