Word: roosevelts
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...Reported by Greg Burke on board the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, Massimo Calabresi/ Belgrade, Bruce van Voorst/ Bonn and Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/ Washington
...real-life story of the Tuskegee airmen began in 1939, when black leadersstarted to pressure President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to desegregate the armed forces. But among the military brass "there was a general consensus that colored units are inferior to the performance of white troops, except for service duties,'' according to a 1942 memo to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. And the idea of blacks flying planes was preposterous to many white officers. Williams, who had learned to fly in his hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa, before the war, recalls applying for military service when he was 20 and being told...
...Tuskegee units were continually passed over for combat assignments. According to Charles ("Chief") Anderson, who headed the group of African-American civilian flight instructors training the Tuskegee pilots, there were several suicides and daredevil fatalities among the intensely frustrated young flyers. Things began to change when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Tuskegee in 1941 and, against the advice of her staff, took a test flight with Anderson. It was a well-publicized vote of confidence in the program. Soon the 99th Fighter Squadron was formed under the command of Benjamin O. Davis, the first black graduate of West Point...
...volume of 330 million shares. The Nasdaq composite index dropped slightly, finishin down 0.07 at 1,012.37. The S & P index fell 1.17 to 558.57. In London, gold closed at $386.45, up $2.45.Photographs: Fuhrman by John McCoy/Pool Weaver by Tom Shanahan/AP USS Roosevelt by DOD Felix by Bob Jordan/AP Mantle by Eric Gay/AP
...Capitol in Washington, a loud outcry arose against their cost. But does anyone alive today think it was wrong to spend public money on jump-starting the Library of Congress with Jefferson's 6,500 books or creating America's first monumental paintings of its own history? Was Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, which gave jobs to numerous good American artists in the Depression years, a bad idea? American government has supported the American arts--spottily, inconsistently, but always with some general sense of obligation to a larger sense of polity--almost from its beginning. The claim that...