Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to think it was all something of a lark. Said one clergyman to a colleague as he stepped off the plane in Montgomery: "Fix bayonets! Charge!" Also on hand were secular crusaders, including Mrs. Paul Douglas, wife of Illinois' Democratic Senator, Mrs. Harold Ickes, widow of Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Secretary, and Mrs. Charles Tobey, widow of the former Republican Senator from New Hampshire...
...contributions for clothing for himself. "I came very close to it on one occasion, your honor, and it might have been a sizable sum," replied Dirksen gravely, settling into his chair for a good anecdote. As a freshman Congressman in 1933, the witness said, he arrived in Washington for Roosevelt's inauguration without a dress suit and was described in the newspapers as "the man who attended the inauguration in a rented suit." Recalled Dirksen: "It was a frightful embarrassment, and it resulted promptly in the raising of a fund of $2,700 to buy me a white...
Genealogists are digging into the roots of the Roosevelt family tree to find out more about a mid-17th century gentleman recalled by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 50. Chatting with newsmen in Washington, the Under Secretary of Commerce explained that although he's related in one way or another to twelve U.S. Presidents, "including my father,"* it really doesn't help much in politics. There is one ancestor with contemporary significance, he added-his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, a second-generation American named Humphrey Johnson...
...long for a man to be at a post like that." Disregarding his ideological legacy, he became a Republican "because they needed me more," and in 1940 was elected to the House of Representatives. He remained a Congressman continuously until 1958, except for the 1945-46 term, when Franklin Roosevelt's Pennsylvania coattails were even longer than Lyndon Johnson's 20 years later. From 1954 to 1958, he was the pivotal vote for the liberals on the House Rules Committee, a distinction which did not endear him to ex-minority leader Charles Halleck. In 1958, he defeated ex-governor George...
...York City, and James V. Callo '66, of Leverett House and West Hartfortfordford, Conn., have been elected president and vice-president, respectively, of Phillips Brooks House. Miss Gillam has worked with Project Tanganyika since 1962, and spent last year in Africa. Callo has been working with the Roosevelt Towers project...