Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gratitude. Franklin Roosevelt, assuming office as the economy President (a phase that did not last long), ordered a 25% cut in pensions for disabled veterans. When a big Legion rally in Long Beach, Calif, started to threaten a second march on Washington, National Commander Johnson hustled to the scene, talked down the first angry boos which greeted him, and persuaded the Legionnaires...
Four years later, Franklin Roosevelt remembered helpful Louis Johnson, the loyal Legionnaire, with an appointment as Assistant Secretary...
...Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer and Reinhold Niebuhr; and, as a "moral symbol of the Western democratic creed, whom the whole world recognizes," Eleanor Roosevelt...
Divorced. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 34, third son of the late President, newly elected Representative from Manhattan's 20th Congressional District (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS); by Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, 33, socialite heiress to a Du Pont chemical fortune; after almost twelve years of marriage, two children; in Minden...
Editor Grosvenor wields an autocratic blue pencil, even on articles written for the Geographic by U.S. Presidents, e.g., Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge and Hoover. Most articles and "legends" (captions) are written by the studious, well-paid editorial staff of 149. Grosvenor sets the tone, which is frequently florid, sometimes quaint, always polite. Says Grosvenor: "We prefer to print only what is of a kindly nature." He has even found a friendly word to say for wasps...