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- 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
How To Use Franklin Roosevelt In A Sentence
- Franklin Roosevelt had maintained a diplomatic representative in Vichy from the outset.
- In response, the New Deal attempted to unhorse those President Franklin Roosevelt termed “economic royalists,” who were growing rich off “other people’s money” while the country suffered its worst trauma since the Civil War. “The Street” trembled. Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation
- Perhaps ironically, the most important advice to the tea-party movement and GOP candidates on how to handle this situation comes from Franklin Roosevelt: "This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly . . . let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Achilles' Heel and the Diverse, Amorphous Tea Party
- Franklin Roosevelt wanted to pack the Court with New Dealers who would uphold his legislative program.
- Instead, however, he finds himself very much in the position Franklin Roosevelt described in a famous 1936 speech, struggling with “the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.” Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » New Names, Same Old Enemies
- It has produced films and television movies ranging from those excellent as both drama and history, like Sunrise at Campobello (1960) about Franklin Roosevelt's pre-presidency confrontation of his polio to the purely fictional and melodramatic Sally Hemings (2000), based on a novel about Thomas Jefferson's real but largely undocumented relationship with a slave. Carl Sferrazza Anthony: Playing Presidents: Good History vs. Good Drama and The Actor JFK (and Jackie) Wanted To Play Him
- People don't realize how courageous Franklin Roosevelt was until they look at somebody like Barack Obama and realize how 'uncourageous' he is. Asia Times Online
- In the 1930s, this led it into conflict with Franklin Roosevelt's economic programs, and provoked a Presidential threat to stack the Court with pliable appointees.
- To protect a unique species of pupfish, 40 acres at Devil's Hole were added to the park by President Franklin Roosevelt on March 6, 1937.
- The phrase packing the Court—always pejorative, imputing one-sidedness—burst on the scene in 1936 in criticism of President Franklin Roosevelt’s plan to appoint a new Supreme Court justice every time one of the “nine old men” a phrase coined by the columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen reached the age of seventy and refused to step down. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
