Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the exception of his appearance at his inaugural ball that night, John Lindsay was deeply immersed in the strike for the rest of the week. Day after day, he lunched at his desk, mainly on sandwiches and milk. Night after night, he went to bed in his Roosevelt Hotel suite after 1 a.m., rose before 6 a.m. For the first four days of the week, he set an example for New Yorkers by walking the four miles from hotel to city hall-until Mary Lindsay asked: "Don't you think this is a little silly?" Reporters...
...There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time," declared Massachusetts' Governor Calvin Coolidge when he broke the Boston police strike in 1919. "A strike of public employees is unthinkable and intolerable," added President Roosevelt in 1937. On pain of one year's imprisonment, federal employees are forbidden even to belong to a union that advocates strikes; other bans against public-employee strikes are on the books in eleven states, ranging from New York to Hawaii. And even without specific laws, the country's courts have almost universally upheld Government...
Gall Gillam '65-4, president of PBH, and Gordon A. Donaldson Jr. '67, chairman of the Roosevelt Towers tutorial program, were invited by the Office of Economic Opportunity to discuss possible co-operation between student tutorial programs and Community Action Agencies throughout the country...
...support Britain's embargo on oil shipments to Rhodesia by offering U.S. aircraft to fly oil into landlocked Zambia during the crisis. Prime Minister Wilson was so cheered by his rapport with the President that he confided after the talks: "We are as close together as Churchill and Roosevelt ever were...
...Franklin Roosevelt was at first no fan of Keynes ? "I didn't understand one word that man was saying," he sniffed after being lectured by Keynes at the White House in 1934 ? but some of his economists gradually began to lean on Keynesian language and logic to rationalize huge deficits. In World War II, Washington planners used Keynesian ideas to formulate their policies of deficit spending...