Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roosevelt's old friend, Boss Ed Flynn...
...group was successful in bringing such prominent national figures as William Jennings Bryan, James MacKaye, Florence Kelly of the National Consumers' League, and ex-President Theodore Roosevelt (who had himself called the Harvard undergraduates effete...
...first vote for President of the U.S. was for T. R. This man Rocky is the nearest thing to Theodore Roosevelt the Republicans can find. He has more brains, personality, and experience than any of the others. I hope I will have a chance to vote...
...matter of months, Hull learned the major fact of his new job: Roosevelt intended to be his own Secretary of State. The lesson came when Hull went to the much-vaunted World Economic Conference in London in 1933 with the hope of increasing international trade by stabilizing the world's wildly fluctuating exchange rates. Roosevelt was experimenting with inflation as a cure for the U.S. Depression and did not want to peg the dollar. He torpedoed the conference (and Hull) with a disdainful note saying the U.S. would not cooperate...
...Good Neighbors. Hull worked hard to promote the Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America, but had a harder time persuading Nazi Germany to be a good neighbor. If Roosevelt was cautious in speaking out against Hitler for fear of antagonizing the isolationists, Hull was even more timid. He objected to Roosevelt's provocative speeches, argued down such formidable Cabinet colleagues as Henry Stimson and Frank Knox, who were urging direct action against Germany. In 1940 Canada was worried that Germany might invade Greenland and suggested sending some troops there. Hull vetoed the idea as too inflammatory. Soon after, Iceland...