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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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  • For Dad, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the Antichrist, Harry Truman the vice-Antichrist, and UMWA chief John L. Lewis was Lucifer himself.†   (source)
  • Grandmother Baxter calmed my anxiety by explaining that America would not be bombed, not as long as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President.†   (source)
  • And the illustrious occupant of the White House then, who was a great leader -- and I say it with some anguish and pain, because, today is exactly 54 years marking his death -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April the 12th, 1945, so he is very much present to me and to us.†   (source)
  • This was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.†   (source)
  • Over the maps was the large picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt I had cut out of a New York Times Sunday magazine section, and next to it was the picture of Albert Einstein I had taken years ago from an issue of Junior Scholastic.†   (source)
  • At a meeting in Monterrey between U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Mexican President Avila Camacho, Mexico committed El Escuadron Aereo de Pelea 201, the Aztec Eagles, to the allied war effort.†   (source)
  • God thinks he's Franklin D. Roosevelt.†   (source)
  • Being vice president, noted John Nance Garner, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first VP, is like being "a pitcher of warm spit."†   (source)
  • The speech of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a New Yorker, illustrates the admired and widely imitated earlier style.†   (source)
  • ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was active in Democratic politics and helped shape her husband's New Deal programs while he was president.†   (source)
  • "The only person who ever succeeded in closing First National," Edgar often boasted, "was Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 'thirty-three, and he had to shut down every other bank in the country to do it.†   (source)
  • The election of Franklin Roosevelt in November did not raise his spirits.†   (source)
  • But that's the way the world's been going since that Madman was President, Franklin Roosevelt, you know.†   (source)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt was a well-known Mason.†   (source)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt for all his faults never failed to call me by my full name.†   (source)
  • 32-caliber handgun at President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.†   (source)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt had succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, Georgia.†   (source)
  • Dear Wheeze, What do you think St. Peter said to Franklin D. Roosevelt?†   (source)
  • " "Just ask Franklin D. Roosevelt when we meet him.†   (source)
  • " God thinks he's Franklin D. Roosevelt.†   (source)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt thinks he can control the whole Chesapeake Bay?†   (source)
  • That question never failed to reduce Franklin D. Roosevelt to silence touched with awe.†   (source)
  • "Call, it's funny because Franklin D. Roosevelt has got too big for his britches.†   (source)
  • One of them would guide her to the source of Franklin Roosevelt posters.†   (source)
  • You'll live to curse the day Franklin Roosevelt was born," he told me.†   (source)
  • Franklin Roosevelt was a good guy of legendary proportions.†   (source)
  • And socialism was what Franklin Roosevelt was practicing.†   (source)
  • In 1938, near the end of a decade of monumental turmoil, the year's number-one newsmaker was not Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hitler, or Mussolini.†   (source)
  • On the second-to-last day of March 1945, in one of his last acts as President before he died two weeks later, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a secret order to Marine Headquarters in the Pacific.†   (source)
  • The following day, most of those same listeners, including hundreds of thousands of children, tuned in again to hear President Franklin Roosevelt intone the six-and-a-half-minute speech whose key phrases would resound in American folklore: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan… With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of…†   (source)
  • What would Franklin D. Roosevelt say about a spy who lost his shoe in the salt marsh and worried aloud that his grandma would beat him?†   (source)
  • All I could think of was if we'd netted a spy like this, Franklin D. Roosevelt would have thrown him back.†   (source)
  • The amount of medals Franklin D. Roosevelt had either hung around my neck or pinned to my front would have supplied the army with enough metal for a tank.†   (source)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt was hanging the Congressional Medal of Honor around my neck, saying, "Without regard for her personal safety, she entered the very stronghold of the foe.†   (source)
  • Admiring him so extravagantly, I was disappointed to find that he detested my hero, Franklin Roosevelt.†   (source)
  • The walk seemed endless, the trip back even longer, but when we returned and Aunt Pat taped the picture of Franklin Roosevelt to our front door I forgot exhaustion.†   (source)
  • So I diddent put any Price on, only told them what I am getting here, but what ever the wages are for a man like me down there I vould take…… " Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated March 4, 1933, but his sonorous cadences designed to revive the national spirit failed to stir Oluf.†   (source)
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  • FDR."†   (source)
  • He is talking in Bengali on his cell phone, complaining of traffic on the FDR, of difficult passengers, as they sail uptown, past the shuttered shops and restaurants on Eighth Avenue.†   (source)
  • I just shrugged and tried to look out the passenger window at the uninspiring view of the East Village crackhouses, which we had to drive by to get to the FDR.†   (source)
  • We turned onto the FDR Drive, and the scene disappeared from view.†   (source)
  • "So what's with that 'hey' thing?" she asked as Simon maneuvered the car onto the FDR parkway, the highway that ran alongside the East River.†   (source)
  • Even fdr, who once boasted that, while serving as assistant secretary of the navy, he had written the Haitian Constitution of 1918.†   (source)
  • Even when everybody was raving about Truman because he had set up a Committee on Civil Rights, Milkman secretly preferred FDR and felt very very close to him.†   (source)
  • He composed it into a telegram that he sent to FDR that same day.†   (source)
  • While the Korbs' neighbors include Stephen Roosevelt, FDR's grandson, and Edward "Ned" Johnson, chairman and, with his family, majority owner of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, Donald is part of the new wealth on the block.†   (source)
  • FDR-era patriots.†   (source)
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  • FDR had the prestige pattern of the upper class in New York.†   (source)
  • 'FDR's Secret Affair.†   (source)
  • They had pulled out onto the FDR highway before he spoke.†   (source)
  • There were faces mixed in—FDR, Hitler, Stalin.†   (source)
  • On her wall hung two images: Jesus and FDR.†   (source)
  • FDR did not pronounce "r"s after vowels, so that storm sounded like stom and fear like feah.†   (source)
  • F.D.R. Like FDR Drive?†   (source)
  • Police sirens wailed on FDR Drive.†   (source)
  • All he said was, "Go find FDR."†   (source)
  • Annabeth passed her hand in front of the shield, and another scene popped up: FDR Drive, looking across the river at Lighthouse Park.†   (source)
  • Charles Sweeney, who later dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, would write that his Catholic mother allowed only two images to be hung on the family's dining-room wall: Jesus and FDR.†   (source)
  • FDR's speech was the model of an international English standard derived from the British Received Pronunciation that took its form in London, at the beginning of the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • William Labov points out that FDR also pronounced the "t"s in words such as utter and shattering in the British way, not blurring the "t"s almost into "d"s [udder and shaddering) as many of his countrymen did, and do.†   (source)
  • At a Thanksgiving dinner at our family home in 1975, I was only too happy to enlighten my father and the assembled family as to the "real" reason we fought Japan in World War II: American insensitivity to Japanese culture and FDR's severing of their oil lines forced Japan—an industrial beached whale—to attack Pearl Harbor in self-defense.†   (source)
  • * FDR in one of his Fireside Chats made a deep impression on the nation by saying, "N.†   (source)
  • He left, and the woman tartly said to me, "I hope at least FDR is good enough for him personally.†   (source)
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