Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief, Sherman Adams, who had accepted hotel hospitality and gifts, including a vicuña coat, from finagling Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. But in much more important areas, he returned from Milestone Plantation ready, as he had not been since his heart attack, to follow the creed of Theodore Roosevelt: "Here is the task. I have...
...thaw anti-Yankee Juan Perón, for example, the State Department sent Latin American Chief Henry Holland to Argentina in 1954 to toast the dictator for "purest sincerity." The U.S. propped Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somosa, who seized power after the Marines pulled out, on Franklin Roosevelt's theory that "he may be an s.o.b., but he's ours." In Peru, Military Strongman Manuel Odria got the Legion of Merit for running a tight economy. The reason for such friendly gestures was typically stated in Pérez Jiménez' Legion of Merit citation...
Rockefeller explained that he would like to see Bridges, partly because he knew of Bridges' long-standing interest in civil defense (this was news to Styles Bridges, who has shown about 'as much interest in civil defense as in establishing a Franklin Delano Roosevelt chair of political science at New Hampshire University). Could Bridges have lunch with Rockefeller on Tuesday? Sorry, but Bridges already had a luncheon date. Would Bridges meet Rocky Tuesday afternoon? Sorry, but Bridges was off to New Hampshire to keep a speaking engagement. Would Bridges like to fly to New Hampshire in the Rockefeller...
Reversing the Strategy. Bolling's plan was witlessly blown by a man who had been forewarned: ultra-liberal California Democrat James Roosevelt. While Bolling & Co. sat silent and shocked, Jimmy Roosevelt arose on the House floor and blurted the red word that Bolling had hoped to spring at the very last minute. Jimmy had found a "silver lining" in the Landrum-Griffin bill. And he told the Southerners just where to find the actual civil-rights sleeper, hidden in Section 609. The Southerners panicked just as Dick Bolling had predicted, but it was still 24 hours before the final...
...Europe from intervening in the Western Hemisphere) used the doctrine at San Juan Hill, on the Isthmus of Panama, and in several other Caribbean countries where U.S. property and business were threatened. Then, bowing to Latin American opinion and cries of "dollar diplomacy," the U.S., under Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt, abandoned intervention, first in practice (the troops were withdrawn from three countries) and then in principle (the U.S. signed the 1936 nonintervention agreement of Buenos Aires). Today the principle of nonintervention, far more than a weapon against out-of-date U.S. meddling, is a rule of law that must apply...