Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dirksen rider [Sept. 18] is a more arrogant attack on the right of the court to interpret the Constitution than Roosevelt's court-packing plan. It defies the separation of powers. It does not attempt to steal a few thousand votes but to dilute millions of votes forever...
...cannot agree with you that this campaign "may shape up not so much as a collision between sharply conflicting philosophies as between sharply conflicting personalities" [Sept. 11]. The personalities are conflicting, true. But never in all the campaigns I have witnessed, since my first vote for Teddy Roosevelt in 1904, have I seen such totally contrasting political philosophies as in this one. One is a retrogressive, 19th century philosophy of radical reaction, the other an enlightened, 20th century philosophy of progress, realism, and concern for human welfare. With such a choice before the electorate, I do not believe personalities will...
...early next year, five weak opposition parties last week summoned up their nerve and nominated a candidate to challenge Ayub. The nod went to Fatima Jinnah, sister and collaborator of Mohammed AH Jinnah, the late father of Pakistan independence. Razor-tongued and prickly (she once snubbed visiting Eleanor Roosevelt after a fancied slight), "Miss Jinnah" enjoys such personal prestige that probably no government could silence her-and she has been increasingly critical of Ayub. But she probably represents no great threat to Pakistan's soldier-chief; a political novice and around 70 years old, "Miss Jinnah" can hardly match...
...must go for Page One in all editions," read the instructions to editors. "Please use signature cut of W.R.H. [Editor-in-Chief William Randolph Hearst Jr.] at end." And so, last week, the Hearst papers made their first Democratic presidential endorsement since W.R.H. Sr. put his chain in Franklin Roosevelt's pocket...
...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...