Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friendship. Even more frustrating is the common presidential illusion that a hand-picked appointee will vote the "right" way when he reaches the court. In 1902, the brand-new Justice Holmes crossed Teddy Roosevelt by voting against the Government in a trustbusting suit, prompting T. R. to snarl helplessly that Holmes had no more backbone than a banana. After Wilson appointed what he thought was the "liberal" James C. McReynolds in 1914, his protege became one of the court's alltime archconservatives. Does every man change when he dons those robes? "If he is any good, he does," said...
...deliverable vote. Particularly worrisome to Democratic chieftains is the increasing independence of the labor vote, a cornerstone of the urban coalition that Franklin D. Roosevelt structured a generation back. There were significant blue-collar defections last year in such Democratic strongholds as Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cincinnati, Louisville and Memphis. Often, rank-and-file resistance to Negro demands is responsible. In the Chicago suburb of Cicero, Democratic Senator Paul Douglas' 1960 vote of 19,678 was cut to 7,823 last year after a series of racial clashes. In a labor area in California's Alameda County...
...G.O.P.-style L.B.J., only with the charisma and the capacity to unify all factions and win an election. He would have to be something like the composite superfigure in the 100 Pipers Scotch ads-one with the party loyalty of a Taft, the looks of a Teddy Roosevelt, the tongue of a Lincoln, the humanitarianism of a Hoover, and the probity of an Eisenhower...
...pragmatist who makes, and changes, policy according to what he sees as current requirements. A lifelong Democrat, Martin was a successful Wall Street broker and a familiar figure in Manhattan nightspots in the '30s. When he was named chairman of the New York Stock Exchange in 1938, President Roosevelt told him: "Your job is the worst in the world-next to mine." After leaving the exchange, Martin served as president of the Export-Import Bank, then as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He was named chairman of the Fed in 1951 by Harry Truman-no fiscal conservative...
...progression of spaces, and most of all perhaps to the kind of architecture which, like good writing, is so compelling that you don't even notice that it is good." Disagreeing with the editorial position of his own paper, he came out in favor of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial: "Sure, it looks like granite darts. But it's about time we have something in Washington besides Greek temples and Roman edifices-something from the mid-20th century in which we live." Another something he has suggested, only half in jest, is the construction of floating swimming pools...