Word: roosevelt
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...tons, and is known among Germans as the Butterberg (butter mountain). Mansholt wants to cut the butter support price-now 790 a Ib.-by 33%. He also advocates reducing dairy herds by 500,000 heads by paying farmers $300 for every cow they slaughter, a proposal reminiscent of Franklin Roosevelt's decision during the Depression to slaughter baby pigs as a way of both feeding the hungry and trimming pork surpluses...
...each of his presidential campaigns, riding the upper berth of a Pullman sleeper to save money, lecturing in the booming, resonant tones of a prophet. As early as 1928, he argued for old-age pensions and public works, the five-day week and unemployment insurance. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well, in a way it was true -he carried it out on a stretcher...
...marked contrast to the wrap-around electronic prompters Lyndon Johnson regularly uses. Because of the ease and experience that he gained on camera in the 1968 campaign, he plans to make repeated informal use of TV in his Administration to get even closer to U.S. firesides than Franklin Roosevelt did with his celebrated radio chats. As one aide explains: "How else can you get 50 million people...
...that is what I have believed in and fought for." He fought that fight well and effectively. Last year, in recognition of his pioneering role in advocating consumer-protection legislation, Lyndon Johnson invited him back to the White House for the first time since his lunch with Teddy Roosevelt. Fittingly, the occasion was the signing of the Wholesome Meat Act, which filled the few remaining loopholes in the law Sinclair had inspired...
Lady of the Lake. The N.L.F.'s first quarters were on the Boulevard President Roosevelt on the western outskirts of Paris, but fighting the traffic from there to the headquarters of the North Vietnamese delegation, in the Red-belt suburb of Choisy-le-Roi, proved nearly as difficult as a trip down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The N.L.F. soon moved to the Chalet du Lac, a rented villa ($1,200 a month) in the sleepy, suburban town of Verrières les Buisson, eight miles southwest of the Paris city limits, but only 15 minutes' drive from...