Word: franklin
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...this marketing notion, hosting parades to launch the start of the first wave of Christmas advertisements, chief among them, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, running in New York City since 1924. The holiday spree became so important to retailers that during the Great Depression, they appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 to move Thanksgiving up in order to stretch out the holiday shopping season. Roosevelt obliged, moving Thanksgiving one week earlier, but didn't announce the change until October. As a result, Americans had two Thanksgivings that year - Roosevelt's, derisively dubbed "Franksgiving," and the original. Because...
Still, President Franklin Roosevelt - who rode into office on a platform of deficit reduction - initially hedged his bets, taking stabs at public-works projects and farm subsidies while also rolling out balanced-budget initiatives. When a British economist visited the White House in 1934 saying deficit spending was the best engine to boost consumer demand and create jobs, Roosevelt balked. (Two years later, the economist - John Maynard Keynes - published that advice in his seminal work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, which revolutionized economic thought by debunking the widely held belief that the market naturally tends toward full...
Chenoweth matched his impressive finish of last year, placing 42nd overall out of 250 in the 10K championship. He finished the race in 30:23.6, shaving 40 seconds off his qualifying time at the NCAA Regionals at Franklin Park. The time left him just 2.2 seconds out of the top 40, which would have earned him All-American honors, and within a minute of the top five...
...gentleman crook, a raffish Raffles specializing in chickens. When his wife (voiced by Meryl Streep) becomes pregnant, Fox retires to write a newspaper column and help raise his underachieving son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman). Yet the artist in Fox yearns to pull off one last heist: raiding the farms of Franklin Bean (Michael Gambon) and two other big landowners...
...various personnel setbacks, both squads arrived to find yet another surprise at the course in a season filled with strange circumstances. Just two weeks after NCAA Regionals at Franklin Park were reduced to a mudbath, Harvard found the New York terrain to be unrecognizable due to construction. The signature set of hills that make Van Cortlandt Park so challenging was roped...