Taft's efforts included one suit against the country's largest corporation, U. S. Steel, for the acquisition of a Tennessee company during Roosevelt's tenure.

Roosevelt's efforts are also notable in contrast to those of his predecessors in office.

A WPA writer who praised the efforts of Roosevelt's administration and the Red Cross was quick to note that the new Leavenworth had concrete streets and sidewalks, a waterworks and sewer, and a " fine new $ 67, 000 fire-proof joint high school.

All the while, few fought more tenaciously against Franklin D. Roosevelt's efforts to enter the war in Europe.

In September 1940, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt maneuvered with another State Department official to bypass Hull's refusal to allow Jewish refugees aboard a Portuguese ship, the Quanza, to receive visas to enter the U. S. Through Mrs. Roosevelt's efforts, the Jewish refugees disembarked on September 11, 1940, in Virginia.

He opposed Roosevelt's efforts to purge conservative Democrats in the 1938 primary elections.

He was in the Senate from 1919 to 1949, and prominent among Republicans who supported the relief efforts and other policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration.

He held out hope that after President Roosevelt's death, President Harry S. Truman would recognize what he regarded as the errors of Yalta and would rectify the situation, but his efforts in that direction were in vain.

In the 1940s, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and then of the Senate Finance Committee, George supported Roosevelt's efforts at military preparedness, including Lend-Lease aid to Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, already at war, and American defensive build-up in response to the threat posed by Japanese and German militarism.

The bridge was funded through a $ 1. 03 million federal grant, part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program, and public fundraising efforts.

Like several others who had opposed Roosevelt's efforts to aid Great Britain before Pearl Harbor but faced wartime elections, Gillette lost his next race, in 1944, to Iowa Governor and Republican Bourke B. Hickenlooper.

Abbott was a constant advocate of social reform, and was an advocate of Theodore Roosevelt's progressivism for almost 20 years.

In spite of widespread speculation that Roberts only agreed to join the court's majority in upholding New Deal legislation, such as the Social Security Act, during the spring of 1937 because of the court packing plan, Hughes wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal " had not the slightest effect on our court's decision " in the Parrish case and that the delayed announcement of the decision created the false impression that the Court had retreated under fire.

Boyce's life paralleled Theodore Roosevelt's in many ways: Both men were products of the Progressive Era, internationally prominent, had concern for children, supported Scouting, were adventurers and outdoorsmen, and were interested in civic reform.

Chief Justice Hughes, however, wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal " had not the slightest effect on our court's decision ," but due to the delayed announcement of its decision the Court was characterized as retreating under fire.

The reform agenda of the New Freedom, however, did not extend as far as Theodore Roosevelt's proposed New Nationalism in relation to the latter's calls for a standard 40-hour work week, minimum wage laws, and a federal system of social insurance.

Byrnes, however, despised Smith and only endorsed him because he was opposed Johnston's strong support for Roosevelt's new push for vast labor reform, which showed in the recently enacted Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and envisioned Smith would retire in 1944 and his friend Burnet R. Maybank-the mayor of Charleston who was running for Governor of South Carolina that year-would then go on to win Smith's Senate seat and build a powerful political machine with him that would control the South Carolina political scene.

Following Roosevelt's re-election, Johnston drew more ire from the state's local businessmen when he showed his support for the President's new push for labor reform and outspokenly supported the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

Meanwhile, Smith had opposed the Roosevelt's labor reform and for years campaigned on a two-plank platform to " keep the Negro down and the price of cotton up ," and had recently demonstrated that he intended to maintain his fight to preserve racial segregation after he had walked out of the 1936 Democratic National Convention when he heard that a black minister was going to deliver the invocation.

Following Roosevelt's re-election, Johnston drew more ire from the state's local businessmen when he showed his support for the President's new push for labor reform and outspokenly supported the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

Chief Justice Hughes wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal " had not the slightest effect on our court's decision ," but due to the delayed announcement of its decision the Court was characterized as retreating under fire.

The " switch ", together with the retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter at the end of the 1937 spring term, is often viewed as having contributed to the demise of Roosevelt's court reform bill by undermining the necessity of its passage.

Roosevelt's economic recovery plan, the New Deal, instituted unprecedented programs for relief, recovery and reform, and brought about a major realignment of American politics.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

* 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N. Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.

" He felt that capitalism and machinery in the workplace would lead to more unemployment, and professed support for Roosevelt's New Deal.

These initiatives did not produce economic recovery during his term, but served as the groundwork for various policies laid out in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

* 1937 – New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Friedman was initially unable to find academic employment, so during 1935, he followed his friend W. Allen Wallis to Washington, where Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was " a lifesaver " for many young economists.

Drawing inspiration from the Blue Eagle insignia of the National Recovery Act — the centerpiece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal — Bell and Wray named the new franchise the Philadelphia Eagles.

Following the lead of President Roosevelt's New Deal in the United States, Bennett, under the advice of William Duncan Herridge, who was both Canada's ambassador to the United States and Bennett's brother-in-law, the government eventually began to follow the Americans ' lead.

Even then, Roosevelt's New Deal focused predominantly on a program of providing work and stimulating the economy through public spending on projects, rather than on cash payment.

Financed by Andrew Carnegie and by his own proposed writings, Roosevelt's party hunted for specimens for the Smithsonian Institution and for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Upon Roosevelt's return to New York, friends and family were startled by his physical appearance and fatigue.

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During the Hughes, Stone, and Vinson Courts ( 1930 – 1953 ), the Court gained its own accommodation in 1935 and changed its interpretation of the Constitution, giving a broader reading to the powers of the federal government to facilitate President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal ( most prominently West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, Wickard v. Filburn, United States v. Darby and United States v. Butler ).

The proposal was ostensibly to ease the burden of the docket on elderly judges, but the actual purpose was widely understood as an effort to pack the Court with justices who would support Roosevelt's New Deal.

Willkie centered his presidential campaign around three major themes: the alleged inefficiency and corruption of Roosevelt's New Deal programs, Roosevelt's attempt to win an unprecedented third term as President, and the government's alleged lack of military preparedness.

* July 22 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Roosevelt's nomination speech was delivered by former governor Frank S. Black of New York and seconded by Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana.

With another landslide in the 1934 off-year elections, the electorate was realigned into the Fifth Party System, dominated by Roosevelt's New Deal Coalition.

Roosevelt's candidates for delegates swept the race in New Jersey and elsewhere.

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.