Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, Bureau Chief John L. Steele mopped his brow, thought warmly of his colleagues in the cool forests, and with Chief Forester Richard E. McArdle summed up the purpose of McArdle's far-reaching domain (see map). It's the same as it was when Teddy Roosevelt created the forest service in 1905: "For the greatest good of the greatest number in the long...
...Handed out silver dollars, White House match books and ballpoint pens to the three children of Democratic Congressman Jimmy Roosevelt, who came for their first look at the office their grandfather occupied for twelve years...
Died. Henry Prather Fletcher, 86, one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders who parlayed his wartime glory into a career (1902-29) as a poker-and polo-playing diplomat, while Ambassador to Chile and later Mexico deftly deflated anti-Americanism with a caustic wit, served (1934-36) as a bumbling Old Guard chairman of the Republican National Committee when the party got its most disastrous defeats by the New Deal; in Newport...
...Finally heeding his doctors' pleas, the Governor raced down to New Orleans for a checkup, startled a crowd of onlookers by relieving himself on the carpet of the hallway outside his Hotel Roosevelt suite. Then he grumpily submitted to an electrocardiogram (diagnosis: "He's in bad shape''), ordered some natty new clothes, received redheaded Blaze Starr, his favorite Bourbon Street stripteaser. at 2:30 a.m., later dashed off to Baton Rouge...
When Nixon made his celebrated race for the Senate in 1950 against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas, Governor Warren withheld endorsement until the Nixon forces goaded Mrs. Douglas into endorsing Warren's Democratic rival for Governor, Jimmy Roosevelt. Warren then endorsed Nixon in this wondrous, no-name way: "In view of ... Mrs. Douglas' . . . statement, I might ask her how she expects I will vote when I mark my ballot for U.S. Senator next Tuesday...