Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sides had accepted the campaign as a national battleground. President Truman had proclaimed Lehman his man. Democratic big guns, ranging from Vice President Alben Barkley to Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., raked the state with oratory. Labor worked as never before. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, still smarting under criticism of his ''me, too" campaign in 1948, stumped the state almost as widely as his candidate. He called for a "holy crusade" to elect Dulles, lent Dulles a campaign staff...
...November voted the nation's costliest old-ae pensions, last week reconsidered their budget-busting generosity. By a 400,000 majority, they slapped down demagogic George McLain's Citizens' Committee for Old Age Pensions (TIME, Sept. 5) despite support of the plan by politically ambitious Jimmy Roosevelt. The new law will leave pensions at the increased level (average: $70.63 a month) which McLain pushed through a year ago, but will shave $65 million off the $200 million annual cost by boosting the retirement age from 63 back to 65. It will also make relatives who can afford...
...devoted New Dealer from 1933 on under Franklin Roosevelt, Chapman had also proved his undying loyalty to the Fair Deal by covering nearly 26,000 miles in 1948 as advance man for the Truman campaign train. A teetotaler, Chapman at a White House gathering was once asked by Franklin Roosevelt, "Oscar, mix us a drink," and had to confess he did not know how. The President pretended to be vexed: "I can't have anyone in my little Cabinet who doesn't know how to mix a Martini." Earnest, literal-minded Oscar Chapman had to be assured later...
...trouble with the South, said Alabama's New Dealing Aubrey Williams in 1947, was that most of its brains and talent went North. That, he added modestly, included himself. By faithfully serving Franklin D. Roosevelt in the left wing of the New Deal, Williams had risen high in the WPA, was National Youth Administrator for five years. But in 1945, when the Senate rejected his nomination as Rural Electrification Administrator because of his leftish views, his northern political star blinked out. Williams packed up his talents and headed south again...
Married. John Boettiger, 49, erstwhile Hearstling (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), now a public relations man for the Dutch government; and arty, brunette Virginia Daly Lunn, 33 ; he for the third time (he was divorced last August by Anna Roosevelt), she for the second; in The Hague...