Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven who preceded Johnson, only Theodore Roosevelt sought a second full term, but that was when he attempted a comeback in 1912, nearly four years after he left the White House...
...canvassing friends and relatives, they could raise only $86,000. They went ahead anyway and somehow, with a small but aggressive staff of writers, turned out the magazine's first issue. An extraordinary number of prominent men plunked down the $5-per-year price to receive TIME, including Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Walter Lippmann, Herbert Bayard Swope, Edward W. Bok, the Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, and half a dozen college presidents...
...first years, FORTUNE was more or less a journal of discovery, but the length of the Depression (TIME's editors had felt that "it may last as long as a year") prompted it to begin a study of the stricken economy. As Franklin Roosevelt was elected and power ebbed from Wall Street to Washington, the magazine's editors made Government as much as business the object of editorial scrutiny. In so doing, FORTUNE in the early '30s came down very much on the side of the New Deal, reflecting Luce's general approval of the early reforms of the Roosevelt...
Having spent most of his ideas and energies up to now within the confines of his own magazines, he also became a public figure who spoke out on public issues. Luce broke publicly with Roosevelt and the New Deal in 1937. In a speech to a group of Ohio bankers, he declared that the Depression was continuing because of a lack of business confidence?and that that lack of confidence had been caused by Roosevelt's basing "his political popularity on the implication that business is antisocial, unpatriotic, vulgar and corruptive...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 presented the annual Roosevelt Dinner Award to Mrs. Philip M. LeCompte of Newton, a former ADA chairman...