Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When cotton ceased to be king, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal took its place. The issue of federal v. state sovereignty was all but buried under the weight of federal dollars for public power, military installations, dams, forests and scads of pork-barrel projects. (In 1962 the U.S. Government poured $229 million in grants-in-aid into Alabama...
...simply a massive compilation of every criticism that anyone has ever written about any of the Kennedys, tied loosely together by Lasky's own biased and bitter generalizations. It presents, with equal weight, criticism from the Chicago Tribune and the New Republic, from Westbrook Pegler and Eleanor Roosevelt, from the New York Times and Variety, from Walter Lippmann and Nikita Khrushchev...
Kool-Aid & Custer. Jackie Vernon, now working in New York, is so polite, humble and self-effacing that he risks tears instead of laughter. Raised in East Harlem and educated at The Bronx's Theodore Roosevelt High School, he has a mild voice with a sad urban accent, and his heavy-jowled blinking face has a kind of massive resemblance to Jonathan Winters. If it is true that all comedians and clowns are deeply and utterly defeated, then Jackie Vernon manages to suggest that he is the archetype of his tribe...
...away; lost in the housecleaning, along with much junk, were priceless antiques dating back to Monroe. Arthur called in Louis Comfort Tiffany to redecorate in the current rage, the florid art nouveau. Among Tiffany's contributions was a huge opalescent glass screen in the entrance hall. After Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration, he issued a brusque order to "break in small pieces that Tiffany screen." T.R.'s special contribution to the White House decor was an extensive remodeling in the restrained neoclassical style of McKim, Mead and White, although he is more often remembered for his array...
...Baltimore's Peabody Institute. Another highly valuable addition is the Monroe portrait attributed to Samuel F. B. Morse, better known as the inventor of the telegraph. An Andrew Jackson by John Wesley Jarvis, done in 1819, was acquired to supplement Ralph Earl's Jackson, which Teddy Roosevelt's youngest son and playmates lambasted with spitballs one afternoon. The Blue Room portraits of James Madison and John Adams, however, are still only copies...