Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sharkey, "robbing us." The point: New York City contributes roughly 50% of the state budget, gets back only 38% of state expenditures on services. But one lone Republican, standing against a house divided, threw in an argument that stung the most ardent secessionists. Said Stanley M. Isaacs, onetime Theodore Roosevelt Bull Mooser, the only councilman to vote no to secession: "Remember that more than one-half of the prisoners in state institutions come from New York City . . . What would you do with all the criminals you now farm out to institutions upstate? Would you turn Staten Island into Alcatraz...
...long after Pearl Harbor that Morison had the brain wave that resulted in a brilliant 13-volume history of U. S. naval operations. Even before the December 7 disaster he had become a prominent spokesman on maritime affairs. His active pre-war support of President Roosevelt's foreign policy won Time magazine's epithet, "a Boston Brahmin with a brain;" and in April, 1941 his urging that convoys accompany supply ships crossing the Atlantic was but an example of his acute perception of naval problems. When heeded, his plan proved successful in cutting down the high mortality rate of cargo...
Larry Sobel from Pennsylvania and Jonathan Roosevelt from Washington, D.C., round out the team. They are quite steady, and Sobel, highly ranked in match play. Jim Gordon, Roger Pauley, and Will Crocker give the team added depth...
After only a week of practice on good courts, the team will take on Milton here this afternoon. Wynn has not yet fully decided the doubles combinations but will probably pair Piatigorsky and Pollen at the first position, and below them Woodbury and Roosevelt...
...parked car and its occupant, slumped drowsily over the wheel. Police sniffed the afterglow, hauled the occupant in for a drunkometer test. Then, under a state law allowing such arrests even though the car may not be moving at the time, the cops booked angered, aroused Rancher Elliott Roosevelt, 48, of Scottsdale for drunken driving...