Franklin D. Roosevelt

...between lower Manhattan and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18. In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial...

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...candidate, far more interesting than FDR. Smith and Roosevelt had a very antagonistic relationship in no small part due to FDR's co-opting of all of Smith's 1928 ideas for FDR's 1932 run. Al Smith was a first-generation Irish Catholic...

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...make a fine leader -- his death some 2500 years ago notwithstanding. He wasn't the only dead guy: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt all got nods. Dr. Joyce Brothers, who once said "being taken for granted can be a...

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Two-thirds of voters opposed a third term for Roosevelt, and in hypothetical match-ups Roosevelt trailed Thomas Dewey, then Manhattan district attorney, and ran only even against Robert Taft, then in his first year in the Senate. All...

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...than 8,000 votes cast. While Schwellenbach reportedly wished to be appointed to the Supreme Court , Roosevelt instead appointed him to a federal district court (for the Eastern District of Washington) in 1940. In 1943, he inadvertently...

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...by John F. Kennedy and fired by Richard Nixon. His father was longtime Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., who was appointed by Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression in 1934. His grandfather Henry Morgenthau, Sr. was U.S....

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...3rd 2009, 4:00 AM Twenty years after it was conceived, seven years after ground was broken, three years after President Franklin Roosevelt lent the city $44 million to get the thing finished, the Triborough Bridge - the world's most...

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...The McBurney School in Manhattan. Thomas was seven when he made his Broadway debut in Sunrise at Campobello (1958) playing John Roosevelt , son of future U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He soon began his television career. In...

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...before re-entering Manhattan via FDR Drive. The FDR portion of the tour runs south through Manhattan under Gracie Mansion before crossing the East River via the Queensboro Bridge into Queens. The first major rest area of the tour is at...

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