Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elliott Roosevelt, 54, wants to be mayor too, but of Miami Beach...
...announced his candidacy last week while posing in front of a portrait of his famed father, and he is engagingly frank about the political appeal of his family name. "Let's not kid ourselves," he says. "It's very important." Presently a management and investment consultant, Roosevelt has lived in Miami Beach for only two years, and does not even pretend to know anything about municipal problems. Says he of his contest against Incumbent Mayor Melvin Richard: "It's a popularity contest, in a sense. The issues aren't as important...
...want the people of Miami Beach to know-everything about him. I want to examine his record of public service against mine, his military record against mine, his domestic record, his children, his business activity. I'm going to compare everything in his life to my life. Mr. Roosevelt is not going to get away with generalizations...
Confident of Victory. Roosevelt, on the other hand, has never held public office (last spring, however, he was elected Democratic state committeeman). Just before World War II the President's son went overnight from civilian to captain in the Army Air Corps Reserve, causing an outbreak of "I Want To Be a Captain Too" clubs, spent the war flying photo-reconnaissance missions. During his remarkably checkered business career, he has been a news commentator in Minneapolis, a Christmas-tree grower in New York, a rancher in Colorado, and a businessman in Havana. He is now married to wife...
Though he rejected the job of U.S. Solicitor General in 1932 (the same year he turned down a judgeship on Massachusetts' highest bench), Frankfurter became such an intimate adviser of Franklin Roosevelt that Mississippi Congressman Daniel McGhee labeled him "the Rasputin of this administration." As F.D.R.'s top talent scout, Frankfurter manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice...