Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willing to bet practically anything that TIME will elect either Roosevelt or Churchill as Man of the Half-Century. Yet surely the scientific discoveries of Albert Einstein have had a much more far-reaching effect...
Congressmen who will receive the protest, along with explanatory material, are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37, Richard Bolling, Peter Rodino, and James Javits. AVC Senators Henry Cabot Lodge '24 and Paul Douglas will also get the message...
...Manhattan, Playwright-Author Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Roosevelt and Hopkins) drew the top price-$600-at a charity auction sale of amateur art. His oil painting, Lion Couchant and Worried, was bought by his wife. Path of Investigation, an item whipped up for the occasion by White House Aide Harry H. Vaughan, went...
...about 15% of Franklin D. Roosevelt's papers will be made available to researchers next March, U.S. Archivist
Recalling that Teddy Roosevelt sent warships to Tangier in 1904 to rescue a U.S. citizen named Ion Perdicaris (who had been kidnaped by a Moroccan bandit named Raisuli), La Moore quoted T.R.'s famed ultimatum to the Bey of Tangier: "Perdicaris alive-or Raisuli dead."*Lashing out at the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs for its "notorious . . . pro-Communist sympathies," Scripps-Howard in another blast cried: "Writing polite little notes has produced no results. Action is needed. A U.S. naval blockade of [Chinese] ports would bring the Communists to terms...