Readers Write 11/1 Oct 31, 2009
Re: Jekyll giveaway robs our state jewel (Opinion, Oct. 23): what Jekyll Island State Park lacks is the wise leadership that motivated Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt to champion the national parks system, accompanied by the conservation-minded, philanthropic spirit that inspired John D. Rockefeller to contribute millions to provide vast tracts of land to those public parks. Such statesmen and selfless businessmen are sorely missed these days, as we watch Jekyll Island State Park fall victim... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Oil tanker spills fuel into San Francisco Bay Oct 31, 2009
Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, who designed the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C., Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, Sonoma County's Sea Ranch and many other monuments and public spaces, died Sunday after a brief illness. He was 93. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Golf Course Review - The Homestead (cascades/old Courses) Oct 30, 2009
Throughout it's history, The Homestead has hosted presidents, heads of state, celebrities and even the Japanese during World War II. From Thomas Jefferson, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge and Lyndon Johnson to future presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. Many resorts come and go, but the heritage and splendor of The Homestead will live on forever. (ABC 7 News, DC)
Halloween fun and more Oct 30, 2009
Berry was among the former CCC workers interviewed by Robert Stone Productions for this segment on one of the boldest, most popular New Deal experiments initiated in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the following decade, the CCC put more than 3 million young men to work in the nation s forests and parks planting trees, building flood barriers, fighting fires and maintaining roads and trails. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
6 with ties to group seeking Islamic state have court hearing Oct 30, 2009
Mohammad Abdul Bassir, aka Franklin D. Roosevelt Williams. He is serving a prison term at Ojibway Correctional Facility in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. (CNN -- US)
Lawrence Halprin, 93, iconic landscape architect Oct 30, 2009
Mr. Halprin used the word choreography to describe his melding of modernism, nature, and movement in hundreds of projects, including the memorial to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C.. As postwar America sprouted suburban malls, urban parks, corporate compounds, and federal urban renewal projects, Mr. Halprin helped forge a new, sharper style of landscape architecture, often as dependent on concrete as on vegetation. (Boston Globe)
Islamic leader killed in raid, FBI says Oct 29, 2009
The other men charged were identified as Mohammad Abdul Bassir, aka Franklin D. Roosevelt Williams; Muhammad Abdul Salaam; Abdul Saboor; Mujahid Carswell; Abdullah Beard; Mohammad Philistine; Yassir Ali Khan; Adam Hussain Ibraheem; Garry Laverne Porter; and Ali Abdul Raqib. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit said hearings were scheduled for Thursday at 1 p.m. ET for Salaam, Saboor, Porter, Beard, Ibraheem and Raqib. (CNN)
Aloha oe to Hawaii's kumu hula scholar Oct 28, 2009
" Merrie Monarch's "Uncle George" Remembered One of the founders of the Merrie Monarch Festival, George Naope, passed away on the Big Island at the age of 81. [ ] Born on Oahu and raised on the Big Island, Naope began his study of hula at the age of 3 under his great-grandmother Mary Malia-Pukaokalani Naope and then with kumu hulas 'Iolani Luahine and "Mama" Fuji, mother of Auntie Edith Kanakaole. After graduating from high school during World War II, Naope moved to Oahu and opened his own hula... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Anarchist's Playbook Oct 28, 2009
During his college days, many Republicans were stalwart opponents of the New Deal at home and Franklin D. Roosevelt s march to war abroad. They adhered to a strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution that held most contemporary federal activity to be not just ineffective and unwise but illegal and unconstitutional. (The American Conservative)
This day in history Oct 28, 2009
In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary. In 1940, Italy invaded Greece during World War II. In 1958, the Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected pope; he took the name John XXIII. In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba. (Boston Globe)
Public needs to be part of our public art Oct 27, 2009
"I used to borrow the teacher's red pen to draw the blood on severed limbs. Maxximum Putt Putt is glowing 'edutainment.' All it took was one round of miniature golf to help Chris Rice figure out his new career path. Rice, a former band teacher, was on vacation in Hawaii when he played the game inside a room lit entirely by black light. He loved the idea. And after returning to Fresno, he spent months developing his own spin on the concept, eventually opening the city's newest entertainment... (Fresno Bee)
Age looms large in searching for a job Oct 26, 2009
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Assessing Obamas first year Oct 26, 2009
During the 193233 transition, as the banks collapsed and the nation slid deeper into the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt said something similar and he meant it. FDR refused to cooperate with outgoing president Herbert Hoover in rescuing the financial system, and he made no decisions before his inaugural about how he planned to stimulate the economy. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Ps-s-s-t, do I have a deal for you! Oct 24, 2009
Oh, incidentally, just in case you are wondering, the foregoing description was that of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. Sound familiar. (Boerne Star, TX)
Senators Take On Obama's Czars Oct 23, 2009
But the first President to truly create czars as we know them today was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had his "brain trust" and "assistant presidents," according to Harold Relyea, a retired 35-year veteran of the Congressional Research Service who specialized in presidential powers, which he wrote in a statement for the hearing. Every Administration has defined its czars differently, but generally speaking, they are appointees, not confirmed by the Senate, who help coordinate issues across... (Time.com)
GUEST OPINION: Dear President Obama, hope is not enough Oct 23, 2009
Franklin D. Roosevelt put millions of people to work with his programs in the 1930 s because it was unacceptable to him to have so many people out of work. He showed great courage as a leader, given that the right wing of his day portrayed him as a traitor to his class. (Winchester Star, MA, MA)
Rosella Howe, 97; feminist, poet loved English language Oct 23, 2009
Prior to World War II, Mrs. Howe was working in Boston for the American Red Cross when she met Hartley Howe, a journalist and son of Louis McHenry Howe, political adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Howes married in 1941 and moved to Washington, D.C., where Mrs. Howe worked for the Office of Indian Affairs and wrote speeches and news releases for Sidney Hillman of the War Production Board. (Boston Globe)
New Deal changed nation’s fabric Oct 22, 2009
Government intervention in the financial crisis has prompted a number of critics, including columnist Thomas Sowell, to write disparagingly of Franklin D. Roosevelt s New Deal, claiming it prolonged, rather than ended the Great Depression of 1929. Growing up in those depression years on the far south side of Chicago, amid factories and steel mills, I can attest to the devastations of that national crisis. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Hansen fought Grand Teton expansion, then became supporter Oct 22, 2009
As a prominent Jackson rancher and a young Teton County commissioner in 1943, Hansen was outraged when President Franklin D. Roosevelt turned about a third of Jackson Hole -- much of it land covertly purchased by millionaire John D. Rockefeller -- into a national monument. Despite howls of protest by Hansen, as well as locals and Wyoming politicians, the national monument eventually became part of Grand Teton National Park in 1950. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Lost link, disrupted lives Oct 20, 2009
Late Monday, the Essex County Board of Supervisors called for New York and Vermont to declare a state of emergency, and install a temporary bridge at Crown Point while the existing historic bridge -- which was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- is either repaired or replaced. Gov. David Paterson said the state would work "as quickly as possible to reopen the bridge" without endangering public safety. (Albany Times Union)
Judge Oxendine removed from board Oct 16, 2009
A state-run facility in Meriwether County, the Warm Springs institute was founded in 1927 by Franklin D. Roosevelt to treat victims of polio. It now treats people with all types of disabilities, according to its Web site. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
White House Legend Helen Thomas Oct 15, 2009
The tradition had been built up from Franklin D. Roosevelt, who always let the senior wire-service reporter in the room conclude each news conference. At one time, my boss at UPI had that honor and he always said, "Thank you." Then that privilege went to an AP reporter, who always said "Thank you." Then suddenly it was me. (Time.com)
Inskeptical age, Obama is government's face Oct 14, 2009
President Franklin D. Roosevelt scaled back the frequency of his fireside chats for exactly that reason. "People would get bored with him and they would turn to other actors in that period," says Fred Greenstein, a Princeton University emeritus professor who wrote "The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama.". (MSNBC -- Politics)
Writer responds to Mr. Shirk and Mr. Cator Oct 13, 2009
Cator and his fellow conservatives have hated American social programs since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Social Security into law and Cator's conservative party voted against Medicare when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law. I guess they would be against the reform of health care. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Best from Sunday Oct 12, 2009
BARNESVILLE - Rebecca Goolsby remembers the day Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Barnesville as being very hot. ATLANTA - A fire trapped three girls in a Duluth townhouse Friday night, killing two of them and leaving another in critical condition, Gwinnett County authorities said. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Lining roadways with palms popular in 1800s Oct 12, 2009
A: The WPA was the Works Progress Administration, started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create jobs for 8. 5 million people as the nation recovered from the Great Depression. (Fresno Bee)
Election of Obama does not mean end of racism in America Oct 12, 2009
Academically, I never could have excelled in this world - never could have matriculated to college - without having learned about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison or Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, anyone could have excelled academically without having learned about Gwendolyn Brooks, Shirley Chisholm, or Madame CJ Walker. (East Tennessean, TN)
Barnesville remembers 1938 FDR visit Oct 11, 2009
BARNESVILLE - Rebecca Goolsby remembers the day Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Barnesville as being very hot. The 83-year-old Goolsby, one of about 150 who attended the recent dedication of a historical marker commemorating that Aug. 11, 1938, visit, was 11 at the time and her job was to wear a white cap and pass out campaign buttons. (Athens Banner-Herald)
States seek piece of the action on unclaimed savings bonds Oct 11, 2009
WASHINGTON - Nearly 70 years ago, the US government began issuing hundreds of billions of dollars in savings bonds to finance the greatest war effort in the nation s history, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who summoned patriotic Americans to one great partnership, buying the very first. But the bonds came with a catch: They wouldn t be paid off for 40 years, an unusually long time. (Boston Globe)
Moore takes us inside capitalist system Oct 10, 2009
So did Franklin D. Roosevelt. One year before he died, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights for Americans. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Federal deficit reduction is crucial Oct 10, 2009
The previous debt also includes the more than the $400 billion that President Franklin D. Roosevelt borrowed to fight and win World War II.. While the president and Congress work to resolve the growing fiscal crisis in the nation, our collective rural challenge is to grow the rural Minnesota economy and create rural jobs and economic development. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Railfair at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park Oct 8, 2009
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King signed the Ogdensburg Declaration, an agreement that provided for the joint defense of North America, in this car in 1940. Railfair also has attractions for hobbyists. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Follow the money Oct 8, 2009
Asia Times Online :: Asian news and current affairs. There are many possible responses to the news that the United States government has committed more than US$4 trillion of public money to Wall Street. (Asia Times Online)
Marine Corps League host fundraiser Oct. 17 Oct 7, 2009
The Marine Corps League Charter was approved by an act of Congress on August 4, 1937, and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Marine Corps League is the only military organization which can boast such an honor. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
No stampede and 100 arrests Oct 1, 2009
" Strikers and young vandals broke butchers' windows on the North Side, in Lawrenceville and in East Liberty. They stampeded a herd of 35 steers being driven from Herrs Island over the 31st Street Bridge toward Bloomfield by hurling bricks into the animals at 33rd and Liberty.It took an hour for city slickers to round up the herd. Yet there were only 13 arrests. A week later, the PG had a story of 4,000 people marching from Fifth Avenue High in the Hill District to Downtown -- and only 125... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Capitalism: A Love Story Sep 26, 2009
Moore is also proud of some archival footage found of President Franklin D. Roosevelt giving his 1944 State of the Union address where he outlined a second Bill of Rights, which included the right to a decent job with adequate pay; to a decent home; adequate medical care; provision in old age; and the right to a good education. Moore said this footage was thought to be lost. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Plan for New Jersey Youths Puts More in Foster Homes Sep 26, 2009
Franklin D. Roosevelt Solid Gold Stamp Ingot. Inside NYTimes. (Yahoo News -- Child Welfare)
Pride and preservation in ‘National Parks’ Sep 25, 2009
Also figuring prominently are John F. Lacey, a Republican congressman from Iowa at the turn of the last century who had more effect on the environment than anyone you ve never heard of; Franklin D. Roosevelt; John D. Rockefeller Jr., a great benefactor of the parks; Stephen Mather, the first director of the National Park Service; the photographer Ansel Adams; many others. On a local note, the late Bradford Washburn, the mountaineer and explorer who was the longtime and much-admired director of... (Boston Globe)
Obama UN speech: all nations have responsibility to act Sep 24, 2009
To underscore his theme, Obama quoted President Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying, "The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man ... or one nation," but must be "the cooperative effort of the whole world.". . (Christian Science Monitor)
Coury Traces History Of Polio Vaccines Sep 24, 2009
where he met President Franklin D. Roosevelt. That Roosevelt could go on to become president after developing polio at the age of 39 served as an inspiration, Trovillion said. (Bartow Polk County Democrat, FL)
Saudi Arabia Celebrates 79th National Day Sep 24, 2009
"The United States values Saudi Arabia as a close friend and ally. Ever since King Abdul Aziz and President Franklin D. Roosevelt first met aboard the USS Quincy in 1945, our two nations have united in a durable and dynamic partnership that is based on mutual respect and mutual interest. Over the years, our has deepened and enhanced the security and prosperity of both our countries," she said. "On this historic occasion, I want to salute King Abdullah for his leadership on key regional and... (PR Newswire)
tireless environmentalist Sep 23, 2009
Dingell recalls hunting rats "as big as cats" with an air rifle in the Capitol basement, and Franklin D. Roosevelt inscribed a photograph to him--"my friend"--around the time that Dingell was a 12-year-old congressional page. He insists that he never planned to occupy his father's seat, but the senior Dingell's death in office left a humming political machine leaderless and important goals unmet. (Harper's Magazine)
Joan Hertzmark; Brookline organizer propelled many Democrats Sep 23, 2009
Interested in politics from a young age, she served as a delegate to many Massachusetts Democratic conventions, starting with the 1944 assembly that backed President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the 1960 Brookline town elections, she was a member of a slate of 35 progressive Democrats who challenged a group of more conservative incumbents. (Boston Globe)
Today in History Sep 22, 2009
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Office of Economic Stabilization. In 1951, the New York Giants captured the National League pennant as Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Branca in the "shot heard 'round the world.". (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Obama Juggles Super Agenda, to His Peril Sep 22, 2009
In the inevitable comparisons to the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which brought seismic change to American government after three years of the Great Depression, Obama's presidency is unique. "Roosevelt had three years of economic despair to capitalize on," said Smith. (ABC News)
Obama: 24-Hour News Cycle Feeding Anger Sep 21, 2009
"Every president who has tried to bring about big changes, I think, elicits the most passionate responses," he said, giving as examples Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. He insisted that he has no intention of making government bigger and more powerful - a central charge of his opponents. (CBS News)
Docent at Caramoor Illuminates its ... Sep 21, 2009
To give her additional perspective on how others guide house tours, Griffin visited many famed New York properties, including the Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and Franklin D. Roosevelt estates. "I picked up quite a few things from docents at these house museums," she says. (Suite101.com)
Japanese-American internees may receive honorary degrees Sep 21, 2009
In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order allowing the military to round up Japanese-Americans on the West Coast and imprison them in camps that included barbed wire and armed guards. The move came in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Malta: 'One bright flame in the darkness' Sep 20, 2009
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Malta "one bright flame in the darkness." Britain's Princess Elizabeth visited her husband, Prince Philip, who was on active duty there in the Royal Navy in 1951. In 1964, Malta became an independent state, but remained in the commonwealth and recognized the queen as head of state. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
The end of the Me generation? Sep 19, 2009
On Sept. 9, 2009, Obama successfully reminded many listeners why he was other than Franklin D. Roosevelt only the second Democratic presidential nominee in U.S. history to win more than 50. 1 percent of the nation s popular vote. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Health care issue Sep 19, 2009
com Health care reform has been on the agenda of our presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt. We are the generations with the ability to make a change in the standard of. (The Clarion-Ledger)
House Republican campaign chief: 'Speaker now likening genuine opposition to assassination'... Sep 18, 2009
- Franklin D. Roosevelt ... - Franklin D. Roosevelt. (The Drudge Report)
Today in History - Sept. 17 Sep 17, 2009
In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history. Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
What LBJ's Advisors Would Tell Obama Sep 17, 2009
Nitze, with his bureaucratic skills and nimbleness, worked under every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George H.W. Bush. Kennan conceived of the policy of containment that guided America after WW II -- and then spent the next five decades as a powerful, disillusioned voice combating what containment had become. (Slate)
Three Lessons of the Lehman Brothers Collapse Sep 16, 2009
In the months after Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, Congress legislated a complete transformation of Wall Street and the banking sector with the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and the segregation of commercial banks from Wall Street. It's not obvious that we need such a drastic overhaul now, but still, the contrasts with 1930s are stark. (Time.com)
Pulitzer-winning author to speak Sep 15, 2009
He said that other presidents might easily be summed up in one sentence, for example Lincoln saved the union while Franklin D. Roosevelt saw the country through the Great Depression and World War II.. Without a defining war, as in Jackson s case, said Meacham, it is sometimes hard for historians to properly ascertain a president s place in history. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Teaching Right Sep 15, 2009
In fact, in the 1930s American conservatives were far more obsessed with Franklin D. Roosevelt and his domestic legacy than with Joseph Stalin, and looked askance at all foreign entanglements, including the Second World War. The anti-Communist cause was first conceived by cold-war liberals, not by conservatives. (The American Conservative)
If fall colors pass you by, you can catch up with them in Arkansas Sep 15, 2009
Finished in 1938, Petit Jean was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to boost employment during th 000008A8 e Great Depression. The state park is marvelously built, full of rustic trails, picturesque bridges and stone steps dug into mountainsides. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Free swim Sunday Sep 14, 2009
Onward to World War II. In 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) declared war on Japan (and rightly so) after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. So why did we attack Germany, after all they hadnt attacked us. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
September 11, 1936 Sep 11, 2009
This Day in Arizona History. 02:03 AM MST on Friday, September 11, 2009. (FOX 11, AZ)
They've switched tunes Sep 10, 2009
After Franklin D. Roosevelt won four consecutive terms in the White House, they decided to make sure that could never happen again by pushing through a constitutional amendment saying that no one could be elected to the office more than twice. Revenge was sweet - until Ronald Reagan came along and some conservatives yearned for the chance to keep him in office beyond eight years. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
This day in history Sep 8, 2009
On Sept. 8, 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a limited national emergency in response to the outbreak of war in Europe. In 1941, the 900-day Siege of Leningrad by German forces began during World War II.. (Boston Globe)
Missing Woman Sep 7, 2009
The life of Amelia Earhart : The New Yorker. Post, TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery), The Earhart Project, Nikumaroro, Islands, Carl Allen, Herald Tribune, Eugene Vidal, Bureau of Air Commerce, (Pres. (New Yorker)
What form of government do you believe in? Sep 4, 2009
What form of government do you believe in. Connecting You to Your Community Lodi, California. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Barker-Karpis Gang, Public Enemies,... Aug 30, 2009
Bremer s father, Adolph Bremer, was a good friend of none other than President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Kidnapping had become the crime du jour of the decade, and with the sensational news of a prominent victim like Bremer drawing the personal attention of the President, this crime was elevated to a priority of national magnitude. (Suite101.com)
