Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Phillips Brooks House would like to set up a nursery school for three- and four-year olds and an activities program for people over 65 at the Roosevelt Towers Housing Project in Cambridge...
Edward S. LaMonte '65, President of PBH, said that this expansion of the Roosevelt Towers Committee reflects a general PBH trend towards greater involvement in the total community, in addition to working in mental hospitals and other institutions...
Chester E. Finn '65, Director of the Roosevelt Towers Program, emphasized the tentative nature of the new direction. His committee, he said, is now deciding whether to institute these programs...
...years, through Roosevelt's New Deal and Truman's Fair Deal...
...director off the Tennessee Valley Authority, then as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, are a day-by-day tale of pushing and shoving. Lilienthal was only 34, with a reputation as a labor-law expert and a job on Wisconsin's Public Service Commission, when Franklin Roosevelt tapped him in 1933 for the TVA. The most energetic of the authority's three directors, Lilienthal pushed TVA into public power, running afoul of private-utility magnates, notably Wendell Willkie, then president of Commonwealth & Southern. Bold and confident, Lilienthal was capable of shrewd self-appraisal. "Mentally on the quick...