Word: rosenman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...redress discriminatory freight rates, the 1938 Purge. But the Southerners' anger is also compounded of resentment against long-continued rebuffs and slights. And their passion is fiercely personal, not only against the President but even more bitterly against the White House inner circle-Harry Hopkins, Dave Niles, Sam Rosenman, Felix Frankfurter-whose group tactlessness in dealing with Congress has long been notorious...
...spring of this year the manpower shortage was everywhere: a half-dozen Congressional committees were howling, the War Manpower Commission listed 36 acute labor areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt called on his top drawer-Messrs. Byrnes, Leahy, Baruch, Hopkins and Rosenman-for an answer to the new problem. There came out long tables of nondeferrable occupations, threats about "work-or-fight," 48-hour-week ukases...
...shaped man who often says no to Franklin Roosevelt gulped and said yes. Thus Justice Samuel I. ("Sammy the Rose") Rosenman, 47, decided to quit his job as a New York Supreme Court Justice (salary $25,000 a year) to become "special counsel" to the President (probable salary $10,000 a year...
...when Franklin Roosevelt was campaigning for New York's Governorship, he met a learned, self-effacing young lawyer. Sam Rosenman at once became useful to Candidate Roosevelt; he dug up facts for campaign speeches, modestly made many a sound suggestion. Governor Roosevelt made Rosenman his personal counsel, dubbed him "Sammy the Rose." In 1932 The Rose was appointed, then elected to a 14-year term on the New York Supreme Court bench. But for a decade he has remained a trusted Roosevelt adviser, shuttling back & forth-half the week in Washington, where a White House bed was always made...
...manpower problem, basic to almost all national problems, last week was getting the attention it deserved. Frankly worried, Franklin Roosevelt called in five of his top advisers-James F. Byrnes, Bernard M. Baruch, Samuel I. Rosenman, Admiral William D. Leahy, Harry Hopkins. The five quietly grouped themselves around a White House table, tried to get 'at the facts. Their findings, when completed in a week or two, will not be made public, will go to the President...