Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, to inherit a fortune of approximately $87.2 million, organized around vast and spreading holdings, including some of Manhattan's finest hotels-the Astoria. St. Regis, Knickerbocker. Cambridge and Astor House. It was 1912, apogee of the Progressive Era and the nation's damnation of what Theodore Roosevelt had called "malefactors of great wealth...
...goes without saying that the opportunities for advancement on the CRIMSON are unparalleled, if one should feel inclined to some crass display of pushiness. Many of the CRIMSON's leaders have gone on to positions of some distinction in public life, among them Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But this is, of course, an insignificant consideration: it is enough merely to participate...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 went out for the CRIMSON in 1900, in the days when "The task was heavy, the drain on the candidate's thought and time exhausting. The candidates was everywhere; he was 'the arrow that flieth by day, and pestilence that walketh in darkness,'" according to W. R. Bowie, the managing editor at the time. F.D.R.'s competition opened in October, and he was finally elected in June after reporting that his uncle, Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt, would lecture in Lowell's Gov. 1 course...
...color." A¶Architect Juan O'Gorman: "José Clemente was incapable of talking rationally or thinking rationally about anything. I often asked him before and after the war why he wore a swastika button in his lapel. He wore it, he told me, because Roosevelt, Churchill and especially Stalin were mankind's greatest scourges, and because the Jews deserved to be exterminated." ¶Señora Orozco: "My husband was not only a good man who loved his family and thought of them constantly, but he was always relaxed at home, always serene, irresistibly humorous...
...tradition goes back to Chester A. Arthur, who called on Operatic Soprano Adelina Patti. Teddy Roosevelt gave weekly musicales for as many as 500 guests, invited such performers as Paderewski and Actress Ethel Barrymore. Neither Herbert Hoover nor Calvin Coolidge went in for such lighthearted entertainment, although Coolidge once had John Barrymore to dinner before going to the National to see the Great Profile play Hamlet. Both F.D.R. (he liked Lawrence Tibbett, Marian Anderson, Kate Smith and Mickey Mouse, among others) and Truman were major White House impresarios...