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...Roosevelt Institution launched its first chapter at Harvard on Saturday afternoon, drawing a crowd of over a hundred progressive students in the basement of the Student Organization Center at Hilles...
Billed as the country’s first student think tank, the Roosevelt Institution was founded jointly at Stanford and Yale in 2004, as a memorial to the progressive policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. It now consists of almost 7,000 undergraduate members and over 70 college chapters nationwide...
...close family and longtime fans, including “All in the Family” creator Norman Lear and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kempner communicates the determination and warmth that made Berg, as one 1930s poll revealed, the second-most popular woman in America (just behind Eleanor Roosevelt). Although her show was clearly about a Jewish family, the Goldbergs’ laughter and struggle were accessible and comforting to immigrants throughout the nation, even in the depths of the Great Depression. The humor found in stumbling over English words, the hope of a better future for one?...
...Kennedy Jr. - the oldest brother - was his ambitious father's namesake, and repository of all his hopes. On Aug. 12, 1944, he was sent on a secret mission so important that it was filmed in a tailing aircraft by the President's son, Colonel Elliott Roosevelt. But the plane he was flying, loaded with 23,000 lb. of an explosive twice as powerful as TNT, exploded in an immense fireball before Joe could bail out. (See a photo gallery of the Kennedy family's intimate moments...
...like John (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald, the machine mayor of Boston whose daughter Rose married Joe and became the Kennedy matriarch. It was the century of the Roaring Twenties, and no stock trader or reputed rum runner roared louder than Joe Kennedy did. The century of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who played a long cat-and-mouse game with Joe's bottomless ambitions. The century of Hollywood, where Joe and his older sons cavorted among the starlets...