... each with his own personal character. Several of them presented themselves as â by the people for the peopleâ (Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter). Some have given the illusion of executive in charge but really it was about them ...

... weeks debating whether Barack Obama's ambitious agenda and political strategy are comparable more to those of Franklin Roosevelt or those of Ronald Reagan. Oddly, hardly anyone is talking about the ways in which Obama is beginning to resemble ...

... the United States in giving a presidential ball on Jan. 30. Proceeds of the affair will be given to President Franklin Roosevelt's Warm Springs, Ga., Sanitarium Fund. The ball here will be given under the sponsorship of Theodore Campbell ...

... anticipation that Congress would pass the $950,000,000 Civil Works Administration and Relief bill. President Franklin Roosevelt devalued the dollar and gave the world a standing offer to buy and sell gold, according to the needs of international ...

... commentary show. "A great tree has fallen," said Paul Harvey Jr., quoting his father's send-off for President Franklin Roosevelt. "An empty place has opened up against the sky." The broadcaster died March 1 in Phoenix, where he had a winter ...

... deferred some interest for 10 years. A more pertinent case occurred during the Great Depression. In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt devalued the dollar by 41 percent against gold. This helped end the vicious cycle of bank failures, deflation ...

... degree to which the administration saw both possibility and peril in the 100-day marker a symbolic milestone since Franklin Roosevelt took office in the depths of the Great Depression in 1933. Presidential aides have derided it as a media-created ...

WASHINGTON Like many of the alphabet agencies of the Franklin Roosevelt administration, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) probably is an anachronism an oversight institution that is operating ...

My mother and father in fact, my relatives took voting extremely seriously. The year Al Smith ran against Franklin Roosevelt, Daddy vowed he would never vote for a Catholic and Mother vowed she'd never vote for a man who believed in killing ...

... Washington it was learned that House leaders and post office officials had agreed at a conference with President Franklin Roosevelt to reduce the local letter postage to two cents. - Advertisement - 50 years ago (1958) Mrs. Gerald Martin of ...