Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy, married, and was back in New York living with his wife and daughter in a $7-a-month apartment on a family food budget of 25? a day. Joe knelt at the feet of bank presidents, utility magnates and numberless clerks. One customer was young Lawyer Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Another was a partner in a brokerage firm, who introduced Joe's savings to the stock market. Soon the bootblack was looking after his own investment positions. If he had sold before the crash of October 1929, he would have realized at least $250,000. He did not sell...
...ROOSEVELT-VOLUME II: THE COMING OF THE NEW DEAL (669 pp.) -Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.-Houghton Mlfflm...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was probably born ten years too late. When Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated for his first term, Schlesinger was in prep school (Phillips Exeter Academy"), and today he writes of the New Deal with the nostalgia usually found in men who have narrowly missed a famous war. Schlesinger. now 41. sentimentally evokes memories that could not possibly be his own: "The interminable meetings, the litter of cigarette stubs, the hasty sandwich at the desk . . . the call from the White House, the postponed dinner, the neglected wife, the office lights burning late into the night, the lilacs hanging...
...this volume, lilac time lasts barely two years (with a few extensions), from March 1933 to the end of 1934. Originally. The Age of Roosevelt was to have been a one-volume job. but Harvard's Historian Schlesinger became so fascinated with his subject that he now expects he may need four or more volumes before he can complete his monument to F.D.R. Like the first volume. The Crisis of the Old Order (TIME, March n, 1957). this one relies too heavily on scraps from the daily press, and often reads as though it were threaded rather than written...
...million a year; in Greenwich, Conn. Owner of one of the first Autogiros, Yaleman Noble had a lifelong interest in aviation, was made first chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938, also served for a year as first Under Secretary of Commerce. In 1940, Republican Noble quit the Roosevelt Administration to participate in the presidential campaign of Fellow Businessman Wendell Willkie. In 1943 he bought radio's Blue Network for $8,000,000. created the American Broadcasting...