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Roosevelt and coined
The explanation for this is that the term " United Nations " was used at the time to refer to the Allies of World War II, having been originally coined for that purpose by Roosevelt in 1942.
In 1980, the United States Treasury Department coined a half-ounce gold commemorative medal with her likeness, and in 1984 she was the first recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award of the City of New York.
However, according to Russell D. Buhite and David W. Levy, in their introduction to FDR's Fireside Chats, " The term ' Fireside Chat ' was not coined by Roosevelt, but by Harry C. Butcher of CBS, who used the two words in a network press release before the speech of May 7, 1933.
According to Roosevelt Brain Trust member Raymond Moley, Kieran coined the term, however Rosenman contended that Louis Howe, a close advisor to the President, first used the term but used it derisively in a conversation with Roosevelt.
It was coined by the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt ( 1858 – 1919 ), to describe some American anarchists, especially those who engaged in propaganda by the deed.

Roosevelt and phrase
* 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, " Speak softly and carry a big stick " at the Minnesota State Fair.
Theodore Roosevelt introduced the phrase " Square Deal " to describe his progressive views in a speech delivered after leaving the office of the Presidency in August 1910.
* September 2 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, " Speak softly and carry a big stick " at the Minnesota State Fair.
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.
The letter in which Theodore Roosevelt | Roosevelt first used his now famous phrase
Roosevelt first used the phrase in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair on September 2, 1901, twelve days before the assassination of President William McKinley, which subsequently thrust him into the presidency.
Roosevelt referred to the phrase earlier ( January 26, 1900 ) in a letter to Henry W. Sprague of the Union League Club, mentioning his liking of the phrase in a bout of happiness after forcing New York's Republican committee to pull support away from a corrupt financial adviser.
However, it is also rumored that Roosevelt himself first made the phrase publicly known, and that he meant it was West African proverb only metaphorically.
In the United States, upon accepting Democratic nomination for president in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised " a new deal for the American people ," a phrase that has endured as a label for his administration and its many domestic achievements.
While the veracity of the Roosevelt relation to the phrase has never been historically established in the press of local papers that covered Roosevelt's October 21 visit and one of his coffee drinking episodes, without doubt, the Maxwell House Company, itself, for many years, claimed in its own advertising that the Roosevelt story was true.
One of the most significant dates in the fair's history was September 2, 1901 when then-Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was visiting and first uttered the famous phrase, " Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Theodore Roosevelt uttered a phrase more similar to Churchill's in an address to the Naval War College on June 2, 1897, following his appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Navy: " Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed ; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.
Sherwood is credited with originating the phrase which came to be shortened as the ' arsenal of democracy ' and later used by Franklin Roosevelt in his speeches.
" Although the French economist, Jean Monnet had allegedly used the phrase later in 1940, " arsenal of democracy ," he was urged not to use it again so Franklin Roosevelt could make use of it in his speeches.
Roosevelt suggested the term to Winston Churchill who cited Byron's use of the phrase " united nations " in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which referred to the Allies at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
The phrase " rendezvous with destiny " was used by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1936 Democratic National Convention speech, inspiring the similar phrase " tryst with destiny " by Jawaharlal Nehru.
The phrase " Strangers in the Night " was created after the composition, when the New York music publishers Roosevelt Music requested the lyricists Snyder and Singleton-then of fresh " Spanish Eyes ", composed by Kaempfert of " Moon Over Naples " fame-to put some text to the tune.

Roosevelt and Square
The law was sponsored by President Theodore Roosevelt as a part of his " Square Deal " domestic program, and greatly boosted his popularity.
* Sheldon Parrish, One Square Mile: The History of Roosevelt, N. Y. From an Autobiographical Perspective, New York: Xlibris Corporation, 2009.
Sites included Times Square, Union Square, Greenwich Village, the Queensboro Bridge, Roosevelt Island, and the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York.
Franklin D. Roosevelt ’ s four freedoms in Europe at the end of World War II, young people behind the Iron Curtain listening to radio Free Europe, Chinese students symbolizing their protests in Tienanmen Square by creating a replica of the Statue of Liberty, newly liberated Afghans in 2001 asking for a copy of the Bill of Rights and young Iranians today surreptitiously watching banned American videos and satellite television broadcasts in the privacy of their homes.
Roosevelt, a progressive Republican, called for a " Square Deal ", and initiated a policy of increased Federal supervision in the enforcement of antitrust laws.
He also participated in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaign, organizing a large campaign rally at New York's Madison Square Garden called " Everyone for Roosevelt ".
Some 20, 000 people listened to Bund leader Fritz Julius Kuhn at Madison Square Garden in 1939 criticizing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt by repeatedly referring to him as " Frank D. Rosenfeld " and calling his New Deal the " Jew Deal ".
The district is located in central Long Island in west-central Nassau County and includes Mineola, the Five Towns, East Rockaway, Rockville Centre, Oceanside, Garden City, Hempstead, Uniondale, East Meadow, Roosevelt, Franklin Square, West Hempstead, Valley Stream, and Elmont.
Roosevelt, aged 28, married his second wife, Edith Carow, aged 25, on December 2, 1886, at St. George's Church of Hanover Square, in London, England.
In 1960, a SANE rally was held at Madison Square Garden that attracted 20, 000 to hear Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Cousins, Norman Thomas, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther, and Harry Belafonte call for an end to the arms race.
The first federally owned refuge in America is Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge and was established by Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 as part of his Square Deal campaign to improve America .. At the time, setting aside land for wildlife was not a constitutional right of the president.
This plan received widespread support, including that of then-Congressman John Lindsay as well as Washington Square Park West resident Eleanor Roosevelt.
A statue of Rochambeau by Ferdinand Hamar was unveiled in Lafayette Square in Washington, D. C., by President Theodore Roosevelt on 24 May 1902, as a gift from France to the United States.
President Theodore Roosevelt joined other dignitaries to observe a grand parade from the review stand at Public Square in downtown Canton.
It is anchored on the Pest side of the river to Széchenyi ( formerly Roosevelt ) Square, adjacent to the Gresham Palace and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and on the Buda side to Adam Clark Square, near the Zero Kilometer Stone and the lower end of the Castle Hill Funicular, leading to Buda Castle.
In addition to the Elkins Act, more legislation pertaining to the Square Deal was enacted during the Roosevelt administration:
During the show's New York run, Fabray was invited to perform the " Caro nome " number for a benefit at Madison Square Garden with Eleanor Roosevelt as the main speaker.
The Roosevelt Square development was created over the remains of the now demolished public housing area that was under the auspices of the Chicago Housing Authority called the ABLA homes.
This strike was successfully mediated through the intervention of the federal government, which strove to provide a " Square Deal "— which Roosevelt took as the motto for his administration — to both sides.
Most of ABLA has been razed for the Roosevelt Square mixed-income community development.

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