Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jail and a $200 fine for okaying the editorial. Readers applauded his and the P-D's insistent courage, and the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the convictions in 1941. When F.D.R. traded 50 overage destroyers to Britain, Coghlan lit into him in a hysterically isolationist editorial (Dictator Roosevelt Commits An Act of War). In 1942, during the scrap drive, Coghlan recommended that "some dark night" somebody steal the three ancient cannons in front of the Capitol at Jefferson City; when somebody did, Governor (now Senator) Forrest Donnell ordered Coghlan's arrest for larceny (he was later acquitted...
...Eleanor Roosevelt easily won the Democratic nomination for Senator from New York...
...That the Roosevelt name was still magic with the voters was significantly revealed when...
...Jimmy Roosevelt won the California gubernatorial primaries...
...John Roosevelt was elected Mayor of Hollywood...