Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

It had required the approval of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before the John Harvey could be loaded with 100 tons of mustard gas and despatched to the Italian warfront.

The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.

* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.

* 1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

* 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.

* 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.

* 1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

* 1933 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 " forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates " by U. S. citizens.

* 1943 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.

" This character, along with the Shmoos, helped cement Capp's favor with the Left, and would increase their outrage a decade later when Capp, a former Franklin D. Roosevelt liberal, switched targets.

Two years later, the re-elected Clinton became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

He finished with an approval rating of 68 %, which matched those of Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled to Pearl Harbor to personally meet both commanders and hear their arguments.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed George W. Merck in charge of the effort to create a development program.

General George C. Marshall, in a memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated 3 February 1944, wrote

The photographer considered the impromptu self-introduction a prank and angrily answered his caller with the riposte, " If you're Charlie Chaplin, I'm Franklin Roosevelt!

Former U. S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt attended the law school.

Image: FDR in 1933. jpg | Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, Columbia Law School

In 1942, it was converted to a presidential retreat by Franklin D. Roosevelt and renamed " Shangri-La " ( for the fictional Himalayan paradise ).

Every president since Franklin Roosevelt has made use of Camp David.

Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference in 1943 during World War II. With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the opening of the Pacific War, China became one of the Allied Powers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, through General Stilwell, privately made it clear that they preferred that the French not reacquire French Indochina ( modern day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos ) after the war was over.

Conley's were somewhat more conventional and even anthemic: critic Franklin Bruno described Conley as a " hook machine ", and his songs have probably been most widely covered by other artists.

While he did portraits of scores of historic figures ( such as James Varnum, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton ), he is probably best known for his portraits of George Washington.

Franklin survives to limp home to the United States despite near-fatal damage – probably the most severely damaged aircraft carrier every to make it back to port – and never returns to service.

Both Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Thompson ( Count Rumford ) probably owed much of their early interest in scientific research to his influence.

It was probably owing to his friendship with Franklin, and to his consistent support of Lord Rockingham, that he was selected by

His love for the exploration of the polar regions probably started in London, for many of the polar explorers, especially after the disappearance of the Franklin expedition, presented their discoveries to the Royal Geographical Society.

Benjamin Franklin probably studied Cato when he was at Boston Latin School.

* Battle of Franklin — James H. Wilson's repulse of Forrest probably saved the Union army

In History of the Town of Rochester, N. H., published 1892, author Franklin McDuffee remarks that the Isinglass River is " probably named from the mica in its bed or along its banks.

* Total Experience Gospel Choir-Founded at Franklin in 1973, still active as of 2008, probably Seattle's best-known gospel group

Today Greenough's best-known work is probably a statue of Benjamin Franklin standing in front of the Old City Hall ( Boston ).

* Father of LightsBenjamin Franklin used this terminology when proposing that meetings of the Constitutional Convention begin with prayers

In more modern times the British Army used kites to haul human lookouts high into the air for observation purposes, using the kites developed by Samuel Franklin Cody.

Serious efforts to understand how proteins are encoded began after the structure of DNA was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick, who used the experimental evidence of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin ( among others ).

Franklin designed a " dissectible " Leyden jar, which was widely used in demonstrations.

Benjamin Franklin advertised pencils for sale in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729, and George Washington used a three-inch pencil when he surveyed the Ohio Territory in 1762.

Although the White House grounds have had many gardeners through their history, the general design, still largely used as master plan today, was designed in 1935 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. of the Olmsted Brothers firm, under commission from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Other forms of elastic X-ray scattering include powder diffraction, SAXS and several types of X-ray fiber diffraction, which was used by Rosalind Franklin in determining the double-helix structure of DNA.

The actual term " State of the Union " first emerged in 1934 when Franklin D. Roosevelt used the phrase, becoming its generally accepted name since 1947.

Franklin used the massacres to illustrate his point that no race had a monopoly on virtue, likening Paxton Men to " Christian White Savages '".

One of those, used ( among other duties ) for telephone conversations between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt was intercepted and unscrambled by the Germans.

Secretary Ickes recommended to President Franklin Roosevelt that the Antiquities Act, which permitted Presidents to set aside land for protection without the approval of Congress, be used to establish a National Monument in Jackson Hole.

For example, James Farley used his position as Postmaster General during Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration to reward party loyalists within Congress who supported Roosevelt's initial " 100 days " legislation with federal patronage for their states.

Franklin and Hadley confirmed evaporation of highly volatile liquids, such as alcohol and ether, could be used to drive down the temperature of an object past the freezing point of water.

Other towns used as supply points in Missouri included Old Franklin, Arrow Rock, and Fort Osage.

In 1947, on the centenary of Bell's birth, the Telephone Pioneers of America dedicated a historical marker on the side of one of the buildings, the Franklin School, that Bell and Tainter used for their successful trial.

Starting in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt kept the agency, increased the funding, streamlined the bureaucracy, and used it to help restore business prosperity, especially in banking and railroads.

It was one of the primary trees used in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's " Great Plains Shelterbelt " WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30, 233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for.

The typeface used for most of the words displayed on-screen during the run was Franklin Gothic.

During World War II most of Franklin County was used by the U. S. military for jungle training.

Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt used them, along with President Woodrow Wilson ( c. 1916 ).

During Prohibition, local wits named Franklin County the " Moonshine Capital of the World ", a name used today by the local chamber of commerce as a historic identification.

Stockton Boulevard and Franklin Boulevard extend southerly from Downtown Sacramento and were used from the earliest days of the " gold mining " era for land routes to Stockton as well as to travel to farming areas.

The Postmaster General denied the use of either " Union " and " Franklin " as the new post office name, since both were already used by other Indiana towns.

USD 287 used to have two high schools which were Williamsburg High and Pomona High, but a consolidation project recently joined the two district high schools into one ( which became West Franklin High School ).

The Old Franklin Schoolhouse is a one-room school on Route 27 ( Middlesex Avenue ) near Main Street built in 1807 and used until 1870.