Word: roosevelt
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...notions that capitalism can be predatory and that priests, in the U.S. and Paraguay (where the President is a former Catholic bishop), are all liberation theologians. And in both films, Barack Obama's election is heralded as triggering an era of enlightenment. "I hope he will be a new Roosevelt," Chávez says at the end of the film, "and I hope he starts a new New Deal...
...Roosevelt Institution launched its first chapter at Harvard on Saturday afternoon, drawing a crowd of over a hundred progressive students in the basement of the Student Organization Center at Hilles...
Billed as the country’s first student think tank, the Roosevelt Institution was founded jointly at Stanford and Yale in 2004, as a memorial to the progressive policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. It now consists of almost 7,000 undergraduate members and over 70 college chapters nationwide...
...agree that FDR led this country through a difficult time,” said Colin J. Motley ’10, president of the Harvard Republican Club. “But from what I’ve observed, there’s a tendency in the work of the Roosevelt Institution to favor government intervention in the economy and other things that might make it difficult for conservative students to become involved in the organization...
...close family and longtime fans, including “All in the Family” creator Norman Lear and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kempner communicates the determination and warmth that made Berg, as one 1930s poll revealed, the second-most popular woman in America (just behind Eleanor Roosevelt). Although her show was clearly about a Jewish family, the Goldbergs’ laughter and struggle were accessible and comforting to immigrants throughout the nation, even in the depths of the Great Depression. The humor found in stumbling over English words, the hope of a better future for one?...