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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arranged for his protege to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Hiss worked for law firms in Boston and on Wall Street, and spent a dozen years in government, including stints at the Agriculture, Justice and State departments. By 1945 he was an adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference; later that year, Hiss served as acting secretary-general at the San Francisco assembly that created the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENTLEMAN AND A SPY? | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...Clinton, of course, is a devious, unprincipled, opportunistic, promise-anything, craven, lying, manipulative antiself capable of any treachery in the service of his own ambitions. (They said the same thing about Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GLAD-HANDER | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...Stop competing with Eleanor Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FIFTY THINGS TO DO IN 50 DAYS | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...instance, Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, kept a small zoo in his room consisting of lobsters, snakes and a huge tortoise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Produces Guidebook | 11/16/1996 | See Source »

President Clinton is of no known royal ancestry. Even if his claim of a descent from Robert I of France were true, in 1992 he beat George Bush, whose known royal ancestry is much more prominent than Mr. Clinton's. In fact, in this century, only Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1888, William H. Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Bush were of royal ancestry and elected to the presidency. That means 10 presidents of the 20th century were not of royal ancestry including Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy '40 and Ronald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Genealogy in Burke's Peerage Is Dubious | 11/13/1996 | See Source »

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