Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compensation, a hike in the minimum wage from $1.25 to $2, double time for overtime, and a 35-hour week. While it will not get everything it seeks, the chances are that the next Congress will be more amenable to labor's claims than any since the early Roosevelt years...
...Scripps's first partner, Milton McRae, in the name of the chain. After Scripps died in 1926, the chain changed too. The pro-Democrat, pro-labor views of Edward Wyllis Scripps gave way to moderate Republicanism, although in 1932 and 1936 Howard swung the newspaper chain behind Franklin Roosevelt. Until this Goldwater year, Roosevelt was the last Democratic presidential candidate the chain endorsed; the mainstream Republican tone was maintained by editorials sent out from New York headquarters...
Clare Boothe Luce was not born a Republican; she watched the Republican party swirl around her and settle in her lap. She states boldly that she voted for Al Smith in 1928 and campaigned for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932; but she has been a Republican of various stripes since that time. In fact, Mrs. Luce was twice elected to Congress as a Republican from Connecticut in heavily Democratic years. Her election under the Republican standard and later service as an Eisenhower ambassador to Italy have endeared her to the GOP, and with these credentials she set out upon her valiant...
...Luce, who explained that she had campaigned in 1932 for President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, claimed that FDR formulated the New Deal only after his election. "Today we might even consider his program well to the right of Goldwater's," she charged...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, President of the CRIMSON and later of the United States, wrote that editorial. And the colorful New Dealer was never more correct than when he suggested that Harvard men should give their team the kind of support it deserves. They may do so once again tonight, not in the great Living Room, but in the plot of land surrounded by Kirkland, Winthrop and the Indoor Athletic Building...