Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...F.D.R. announced the Good Neighbor Policy, called the bank holiday, passed the Federal Emergency Relief Act, took the U.S. off the gold standard, and started the CCC, AAA, TVA, HOLC, FDIC, FCA, NRA and WPA. And all that in 100 days, not five months. Johnson is a whirlwind, but Roosevelt was a cyclone...
...York World's Fair President Robert Moses, 75, in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, "doing exceptionally well" after prostatic surgery; U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer, 53, in Honolulu's U.S. Army Tripler General Hospital with a "presumptive diagnosis" of hepatitis, which hospital officials say developed independent of the nearly healed thigh wound inflicted last March by a deranged Japanese youth; British Spy Greville Wynne, 45, in London's Gordon Hospital "in an excitable and disturbed mental state" as a result of his 17-month Communist imprisonment...
...bookie's back room, the little guy who beats the big system is an odds-on favorite to become a national hero. And so, when an aptly titled long shot named Historic Value won the ninth harness race one night last week at New York's Roosevelt Raceway, the holder of the winning $132,232.80 ticket was hailed by every $2 bettor as the man of the hour...
Negative Force. With the election of Franklin Roosevelt, it was thrown into the minority position. The majority party sets its sights on a national problem. The liberal and theoretical wing of that party proposes a solution. The other wing of the party opposes it. The majority party then goes into its customary deadlock, unable to raise enough votes to pass its own program...
...unhesitatingly endorse his John Birch Society." That was in 1960. But times have changed-or so it seemed for a while last week. When he was told that two Birchers had gone on a New York radio program and inferred that he agreed with the tenet that Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy were Communists, the cardinal denied any such thing. "This retraction is long overdue," he announced. "I do not consider this society as an effective way of confronting the international conspiracy of Communism." What particularly galled the cardinal was calling "my nearest and dearest friend, the late John F. Kennedy...