Word: roosevelts
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...some contradiction: his idealism and his rapacity, the good John D. and his evil twin, went partners with each other. The deeply pious Baptist Sunday-school teacher would work the rest of the week as a corporate Borgia--the worst of the "malefactors of great wealth," according to Teddy Roosevelt. In his parallel universe of philanthropy, the lipless, squinty skinflint would dispense hundreds of millions of dollars, which among many other things built the University of Chicago and transformed the entire field of medical education and research. Rockefeller's enemies simplified the puzzle by dismissing him as a hypocrite. Rockefeller...
...graduate of University of Michigan, Beer has worked with several U.S. Presidents, including former Crimson president Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and President Clinton...
...only son of James H. Rowe Jr. '31--anoriginal member of the New Deal Brain Trust underPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt '04--Rowe was bornand raised in Washington...
...different style. He has done battlewith Jesse Helms. He really is sort of in thetradition of Teddy Roosevelt, Class of 1880,Nelson Rockefeller, that wing of the Republicanparty," Mahony says. "And he's a maverick...
...father, James H. Rowe Jr. '31 was a loyal New Dealer in the original Brain Trust during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, a former Crimson president. In addition, Rowe's mother, Elizabeth, served as chair of the National Capital Planning Commission, leading the effort to preserve and protect the city she called "our national treasure...