Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparison, Franklin Roosevelt's Gallup rating ranged from 84% to 34%, Harry Truman's from 87%, soon after he succeeded Roosevelt, to 23% at the scandal-marred, Korea-scarred end of his second term...
Front Runner Kennedy is also drawing inevitable potshots from the rear, and a position-taking U.S. Senator pushing such hot subjects as labor reform, immigration, minimum wages, and unemployment compensation makes a target of high visibility. Busiest potshotter: New York's Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a warm Stevenson admirer, who attacked Kennedy on two charges: 1) Jack, author of prizewinning Profiles in Courage, "understands what courage is and admires it, but has not quite the independence to have it" (he took no stand in the fight over the late Joe McCarthy); 2) Jack's father, Multimillionaire Joseph...
...Alumni Bulletin's rejection of a Veritas Foundation advertisement, "without even giving us a reason, indicates a rather cavalier attitude," Archibald B. Roosevelt '17, a trustee of the Foundation, declared yesterday. Pertaining to the nomination of Ralph Bunche for the Board of Overseers, the full-page advertisement that was submitted gave "complete documentation of Bunche's record, including editorship of a paper which carried the hammer and sickle on its masthead," Roosevelt said...
...response to Roosevelt's charge that the Bulletin "evidently does not want to give the alumni any information on the nomination of Dip Bunche," Mahon pointed out that he is not required to give reasons for the rejection of any advertising copy. "If we did not have these restrictions," he continued, speaking "in general terms," the Bulletin would "be at the mercy of every crackpot in the world." Mahon added that "the Veritas Foundation seems to thrive on the controversial aspect of things...
...Center, Freidel will participate in discussions and studies with scholars of various disciplines from this country and abroad. In addition, he hopes to work on the fourth volume of his projected six-volume biography of Frankin D. Roosevelt...