Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children. Such judicial activism was so out of touch with popular feelings that it finally led to the Court's famous collision with Franklin Roosevelt-and to the stormy appointment of Mr. Justice Black...
Armed with that formidable self-education, Black emerged in his second term as one of the Senate's most ardent Roosevelt supporters, a relentless, high-handed (and hardly judicious) investigator of public-utility lobbies, a prime mover of TVA, and a thundering critic of "judicial usurpation" by a Supreme Court that was overruling one piece of New Deal legislation after another. When F.D.R. failed in his plan to pack the Court with pro-New Dealers in 1937, he did the next best thing: he named Senator Black to fill the vacancy left by retiring Justice Willis Van Devanter...
...evils. He is a positive good, the best candidate since Adlai--no, better than Adlai, because he can talk to folks without the crutch of irony. He fights harder than Wayne Morse, yet smiles. He dreams bigger than Chester Bowles, yet does his homework. He is a male Eleanor Roosevelt...
...enough to encourage the liberals considerably. They concluded that the President was committed to a liberal program and wanted to see men elected to the Senate who would support that program. They hoped also that he might be remembering the lessons he learned as a protege to Franklin Roosevelt...
...doing will deliver a major set-back to Texas Republicans who had ironically based all their hopes on a ticket headed by Barry Goldwater. And he will carry virtually all the liberals either because they have the high hope that he will be a great President, in the Roosevelt fashion, or because they recognize him as much the better of two evils...