Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the Roosevelt dime came out, the U.S. mint was flooded with queries about the initials J.S. at the base of Franklin Roosevelt's neck. Quite a few outraged folks thought the letters stood for Joseph Stalin, and that it was all a Communist plot, until Designer John Sinnock patiently explained that the initials were his. Now there is a flurry over the new Kennedy half-dollar, and it's the Reds again. Complaints are coming into the Denver mint that there is a hammer and sickle on the coin. Wearily, the mint's Chief Sculptor...
...Roosevelt was a yard of cigarette holder tilting up from a generous jaw. Truman was a bespectacled screech owl. Eisenhower was a pair of ears pierced by a disingenuous grin, and Kennedy-well, some semblance of Kennedy could always be drawn under that hummock of hair. To such lean and telling presidential portraiture, editorial cartoonists for the nation's newspapers bring a keen eye, a sharp pen and a drop or two of acid ink. Now they are honing their art on a new subject whose face might have been designed for their drawing boards. But how successfully have...
...certain that it's all that easy to limn the essential Lyndon. At the Christian Science Monitor, Cartoonist Guernsey Le Pelley practiced for a week while committing the President to print, and even now draws guardedly: "You change Johnson too much and he looks like Eleanor Roosevelt." Don Wright of the Miami News finds Johnson a slippery subject. "If you aren't sure you have him, you put him in a ten-gallon hat." In the same way and for the same reason, many cartoonists suit up the President in cowboy uniform, right down to the Texas boots...
...Cochran, professor of Statistics (Preparation of a monograph on the planning of observational studies for the use of research workers in the social sciences, medicine, and public health, at the Rothamsted Experimental Station near London). Frank Freidel, Jr,. professor of History (Further volumes in a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, at Harvard and Hyde Park, N.Y.). Howard S. Hibbett '44, professor of Japanese Literature (A critical study of the psychological novel in Japan since 1900, at Tokyo...
...where they were born, the Anglican church was the established church. Four were sons of preachers: Episcopalian Chester Arthur (son of a Baptist), Presbyterians Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, and Quaker Herbert Hoover. William Howard Taft, the last of four Unitarians to reach the White House, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most recent of nine Episcopalians to become Chief Executive, were active in church affairs all their lives. Calvin Coolidge (the only Congregationalist President) and Dwight Eisenhower (who was reared in a sect called the River Brethren and became a Presbyterian largely because of his wife Mamie) joined churches only...