Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the President's office, Board Chairman Carroll Daugherty, New Dealing professor of business economics at Northwestern University, polished his rimless glasses. Judge Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser to Franklin Roosevelt, removed his hat from his large, pompadoured head. David Cole, Paterson, N.J. lawyer and veteran mediator, dressed in a well-draped tan suit, paused to pass a word with reporters. Then the three of them went in to the President to discuss their findings and point out their salient conclusions...
...recommend him. Always more a teacher than a practicing lawyer, he had made one reputation as a scholarly law-school dean before he came to Washington, made another on the bench there as an able, hard-working judge. So on Feb. 15, 1943, hearty, dignified Wiley Rutledge became Franklin Roosevelt's eighth and final appointee to the Supreme Court...
...week Al Greenfield, still full of beans and plans at 62, decided that the time had come for City Stores* to grow some more. For $1,300,000 he bought from Floyd B. Odium's Atlas Corp. its 70% ownership of Manhattan's fast-growing, nine-store Franklin Simon & Co., Inc. chain of specialty shops. Like Greenfield, Odium had also gone into the department-store business during the depression. He had spent $750,000 expanding Franklin Simon, opening branches in Atlanta, Washington, Cleveland, Bridgeport, Garden City, East Orange. He lifted its gross from $10 million to $20 million...
With Lausche out, the field was open but the crop was poor. The C.I.O. wanted Murray Danforth Lincoln, a lanky, transplanted Yankee, executive secretary of Ohio's Farm Bureau Federation. The trouble with Lincoln, who had voted from the beginning for Franklin Roosevelt, was that he was a registered Republican...
...Married. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 35, third son of the late President, New Dealing freshman Representative from New York; and Suzanne Perrin, 28, blonde Manhattan socialite and exMarine; he for the second time; in Manhattan...