Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schlesinger revealed that the committee has reached "a final decision" and will make a formal recommendation to the Radcliffe trustees on June 9. But he refused to make any statement about the identity of the nominee, beyond the assurance that "it's neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Clare Booth Luce...
Speaking without notes, Lewis roared for three hours. Here was the same spavined warrior who had learned tactics at the knee of Sam Gompers, who had campaigned fervently for, then violently against Franklin Roosevelt, had regularly undermined the economy with his coal strikes (statisticians blame his miners for 25% of all workdays lost by strikes in the 22 years before 1949). Here was the rebel who had founded the C.I.O., left it, rejoined the A.F.L., left it ("TheA.F.L. has no head; its neck just growed and haired over"). There were flashes of the old defiant Lewis who had traded...
...presidency has become "the primary democratist institution." A democratist tone was already audible in President-to-be Woodrow Wilson's pronouncement, back in 1908, that the U.S. "craves a single leader." Democratism's big thrust came in the early years of the New Deal, with Franklin Roosevelt pushing batches of White House bills through Congress and even challenging the Supreme Court in his notorious (but illfated) court-packing plan...
...death of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles signals the end of an era in American foreign policy. While his influence on international affairs was not as lengthy as that of a Roosevelt or Churchill, the mark of his personality is stamped on the five-year period from his appointment in 1953 until the present...
...Roosevelt, however, dismissed this argument in his letter to Pusey: "To give the excuse that the Loyalty Board had cleared Dr. Bunche--if so be the case--does not excuse the nominating committee. The past decade has shown what type of people often creep into the Loyalty Boards from mysterious sources." In its booklet of documentation, The Alliance, Inc. states that Bunche...