Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able to get the money in time for one of his pet projects-buying Florida. In the 41st Congress, Ulysses S. Grant had a 56-to-11 majority in the Senate, yet could not get his own party to support his desire to annex Santo Domingo. And Franklin Roosevelt's overwhelmingly Democratic 75th Congress (1937-38) turned on the President and killed many of his New Deal bills because F.D.R. had autocratically tried to pack the Supreme Court with liberals...
Scenes of Roosevelt's summer home on Campobello Island are delightfully period piece, full of shots of Roosevelt in his most informal hours-that is, with his jacket off, perhaps, but never his tie. But when the moment arrives to say that F.D.R. suffered his attack of polio there, lightning flashes in the sky, grey horses standing in the pasture neigh with terror, and ominously choppy waters are shown in whipping rain. The narrator tells how Roosevelt, on the day he fell sick, became overheated fighting a brush fire, and the producers stage a brush fire to illustrate. F.D.R...
Troubles & Perquisite. As Roosevelt recovers and tries to learn to walk, a cameraman with a hand-held camera attempts to illustrate the ordeal by walking along the gravel driveway at Hyde Park photographing the ground in jerks, sways and clumsy lurches. Later, when Roosevelt becomes a gubernatorial candidate, the narrator points out that Republicans raised the cripple issue but Al Smith killed it, saying "A Governor does not have to be an acrobat." And what do you suppose leaps to the screen? A whole big top full of circus acrobats who swing and soar and throw triples for what seems...
...left alone, it is most eloquent. There is, for instance, a splendid home-movie clip of a dozen or so of his fellow polio victims, all youngsters, surrounding him and eventually inundating him in a water-polo game at Warm Springs. And there is a delightful illustration of Roosevelt's jaunty sense of perquisite as he is being piped aboard a light cruiser. He stands importantly at the head of the gangway in his capacity as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, noting his own flag, designed by him, flying above the bridge. He is obviously using the warship...
...merchant who started Macy's on its road to fame, later went down with the Titanic rather than get into a lifeboat while women and children were still aboard. Jack's father, Jesse Isidor, spread Macy's out from Newark to Toledo before he became Franklin Roosevelt's first Ambassador to France. Jack himself was practically born with a silver trowel in his hand; he used it at the age of two to lay the cornerstone of the present store. Ever since, he has seemed fated for his current...