This was the very sort of legislation that Roosevelt himself had in mind.

I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.

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.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson ( on washtub bass ) and Jody Williams ( whom he had taught to play the guitar ).

Also in 1933 Eleanor Roosevelt honored Beaux as " the American woman who had made the greatest contribution to the culture of the world ".

As governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt had run a similar program on a small scale.

The actual division of Germany followed the lines that Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin had previously agreed upon.

In 1903 Roosevelt toured the Yosemite Valley with John Muir, who had a very different view of conservation, and tried to minimize commercial use of water resources and forests.

In August 1939 Leó Szilárd had prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb.

One ancestor, Isaac Roosevelt, had served with the New York militia during the American Revolution.

Theodore Roosevelt, then a member of the Assembly, said that he had initially voted for the bill believing it was wrong, but wishing to punish the unscrupulous railroad barons.

Churchill had major financial, military, and diplomatic help from President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the U. S., another implacable foe of Hitler.

The RFC had minimal impact at the time, but was adopted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and greatly expanded as part of his New Deal.

" Uncle Joe ", as he was known, often clashed with fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt, who Cannon remarked had " no more use for the Constitution than a tomcat has for a marriage license ".

Spanish Earth was shown at the White House on July 8, 1937 after Ivens, Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, had had dinner with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins.

Welles reported to Roosevelt that Ribbentrop had a " completely closed and very stupid mind ".

In 1890, Congress had passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, but it was not until the Theodore Roosevelt administration ( 1901 – 1909 ) that serious efforts were made to break up or control the trusts.

However, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Roosevelt had no intention of bargaining from this draft.

By the middle of 1903, the Colombian government in Bogotá had balked at the prospect of a U. S. controlled canal under the terms that the Roosevelt administration was offering.

He made many diplomatic visits throughout Europe and the Americas, including an extensive visit to the United States in 1936 where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed a personal envoy – who did not require Senate confirmation – to the Holy See in December 1939, re-establishing a diplomatic tradition that had been broken since 1870 when the pope lost temporal power.

During the war and in the name of Allied unity, Roosevelt had brushed off warnings of a potential domination by a Stalin dictatorship in part of Europe.

Four months after the death of Roosevelt, President Truman ordered the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 88 days after the Soviet Union agreed to enter the Pacific War within 90 days.

Grulla National Wildlife Refuge is located primarily in eastern New Mexico in Roosevelt County, southwest of the intersection of State Highway 88 and the Texas-New Mexico border about 25 miles southeast of Portales, New Mexico and southeast of the tiny community of Arch.

This allowed direct exits to Mannheim Road ( U. S. Routes 12 / 20 / 45 ) from Interstate 88, the ramp also serving for an Interstate 88 truck access to eastbound Interstate 290 ; created an inbound collector-distributor ramp for Mannheim Road ; and added a timed gate that closed a ramp from Roosevelt Road ( Illinois Route 38 ) to inbound Interstate 290 during the afternoon rush hours.

In October 1988, CVW-8 ( the carrier wing of which VF-84 was a part ) was deployed with Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in the North Atlantic for Exercise Teamwork ' 88 which involved operations with the Royal Norwegian Air Force.

In the contest for the Republican nomination, President William Howard Taft defeated former president Theodore Roosevelt, who then ran as a Bull Moose Party candidate, which assisted in Wilson's success in the electoral college.

His opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1940 election with 55 % of the popular vote and 85 % of the electoral vote.

Roosevelt won the electoral vote to 449 to 82.

Although some political pundits predicted a close race, Roosevelt went on to win the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the current two-party system in the 1850s, carrying all but 8 electoral votes.

By winning 523 electoral votes, Roosevelt received 98. 49 % of the electoral vote, the highest percentage since 1820.

Roosevelt also won the largest number of electoral votes ever recorded at that time, so far only surpassed by Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election, when 7 more electoral votes were available.

In the 1992 election, he received 18. 9 % of the popular vote, approximately 19, 741, 065 votes ( but no electoral college votes ), making him the most successful third-party presidential candidate in terms of the popular vote since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election.

Unlike Perot, however, some other third party candidates since Roosevelt have won electoral college votes.

To carry the electoral college, however, Roosevelt needed massive majorities in the largest cities to overcome the hostility of suburbs and towns.

This candidate would split the progressive vote with Roosevelt, causing the election of a Republican but proving the electoral appeal of Share Our Wealth.

He subsequently lost the presidential election against Ronald Reagan by the largest electoral college margin since the 1936 presidential election victory by Franklin Delano Roosevelt over Alf Landon.

The election was mainly a contest between Roosevelt and Wilson, Taft receiving little attention and carrying just eight electoral votes.

Division within his party over currency issues and the popularity of incumbent Theodore Roosevelt led to Parker's landslide defeat, the electoral vote being 336 for Roosevelt to 140 for Parker, the popular vote 7, 623, 486 for Roosevelt to 5, 077, 971 for Parker.

According to Williams, the idea was that this candidate would split the left-wing vote with President Roosevelt, thereby electing a Republican president and proving the electoral appeal of SOW.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, feeling he needed Ohio's electoral college votes in order to win a third term in office, asked Donahey to be his running mate in the 1940 election.

His electoral majority, which was larger that Franklin D. Roosevelt ’ s Washington vote, insured that he would not be accused of winning the office on the presidential coattails.