Word: roosevelt
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...some ways, this Republican faction signals a return to the original political allegiances of African Americans. In homage to Abraham Lincoln's ending slavery, most blacks voted Republican until Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt wooed them into his New Deal coalition in 1932. Now the Republicans are injecting different ideas. Kemp, for example, suggests that the government eliminate capital-gains taxes on inner-city entrepreneurs in order to put more funds into urban pockets of impoverishment. Only 5% of blacks are self-employed, vs. 11% of whites...
...Iraq. But many see job opportunities ahead--not just in government (the federal Homeland Security Department employs 183,000) but in industry as well. "A lot of companies are specializing in homeland-security technology," says U.S.C. Dean Max Nikias. "Everybody wants to get into this." --By Margot Roosevelt...
...themselves into a political one with the benign assistance of King George. Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald has steadily become more conservative, and Conservative Stanley Baldwin & Party have been fated to maintain or introduce the most radical legislation dished up in any Great Power outside the Soviet Union until President Roosevelt dished his New Deal. In England, while maintaining the Crown with all it implies, the income tax has been raised to confiscatory altitudes; the proletariat have come to accept and demand the Dole as a matter of right; and such amenities as the provision of the phenomenally cheap, brand...
...information shows extensive editing by an Interior Department political appointee. "The only science upon which the Administration based this decision was political science," says Mark Salvo, director of the Sagebrush Sea Campaign. "They are paying back their political base in the grazing and oil and gas industries." --By Margot Roosevelt...
Andrew Jackson? A pistol mouth, a boxing-glove nose and bullets as eyes. Theodore Roosevelt? Gears for eyes, a light-bulb nose and a coiled-wire mustache. Piven's highly inventive collage portraits are matched with amusingly quirky tidbits about the Presidents (the pugnacious Jackson's penchant for dueling, the busy Roosevelt's bustling energy). Most of the jokes are benign--George W. Bush, a former baseball-team owner, has a hot-dog nose and buns for eyebrows--but Piven also meets darker facts head on: Richard Nixon's face is formed with a tape recorder, and his prominent nose...