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.

Because of Roosevelt ’ s confidence in the Navy, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was specifically selected as the site of the negotiations and charged with the delicate responsibility for providing the diplomatic protocols for peace.

Each leader had an agenda for the Yalta Conference: Roosevelt asked for Soviet support in the U. S. Pacific War against Japan, specifically invading Japan ; Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe ( specifically Poland ); and Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe, an essential aspect of the USSR's national security strategy.

In a campaign speech Roosevelt specifically endorsed such separation.

In the last stages of the Second World War, in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, the Bank for International Settlements became the crux of a fight that broke out when the Norwegian delegation put forth evidence that the BIS was guilty of war crimes and put forth a motion to dissolve the bank ; the Americans, specifically President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau, supported this motion.

One extreme example of an executive order is Executive Order 9066, where Franklin D. Roosevelt delegated military authority to remove any or all people ( used to target specifically Japanese Americans and German Americans ) in a military zone.

In 1943, Jan Karski, an officer in the Polish underground, traveled to Washington as an emissary of the resistance to meet with Franklin Roosevelt and report to the President on the European conflict and specifically conditions in his own country, Poland.

President Theodore Roosevelt, who first spoke out against the " sham naturalists " in 1907, specifically named London as one of the so-called " nature fakers ".

The first session of Congress, known as the " Hundred Days ," took place before the regular seating and was called by President Roosevelt specifically to pass two acts:

She is credited with pushing Roosevelt to write her own newspaper column, " My Day ", and to hold weekly press conferences specifically for female journalists.

The West Sister Island National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1937 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt " as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife ...," specifically designated to protect the largest wading bird nesting colony on the U. S. Great Lakes.

During the period of World War Two when America was neutral, the government of Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the Lend-Lease supply to the United Kingdom of the S200 Class, designed specifically to fit into the restricted British loading gauge.

The 4 July raid had been specifically ordered by General Henry H. " Hap " Arnold and approved by President Roosevelt.

On the suggestion of Canadian / British spymaster William Stephenson, the senior British intelligence officer in the western hemisphere, Roosevelt requested that William J. Donovan draft a plan for an intelligence service.

The U. S. public was very " tense " during the two month blockade, and Roosevelt requested that Britain and Germany pull out their forces from the area.

Morgan remained at Antioch until 1933, when President Roosevelt requested that he assume directorship of the Tennessee Valley Authority Project.

On July 25, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson requested that President Roosevelt issue orders calling the military forces of the Commonwealth into active service for the United States.

The establishment of the Islands of Manila bay as military reservations was requested by Army President Theodore Roosevelt and enacted by Executive Order on April 11, 1902.

According to Carter Golembe, the Banking Act of 1933 was the “ only important piece of legislation during the New Deal ’ s famous ‘ one hundred days ’ which was neither requested nor supported by the new administration .” In their books on banking events in 1933, Susan Eastabrook Kennedy and Helen Burns concluded that, although the 1933 Banking Act was not part of the New Deal, Roosevelt ultimately preferred it to no banking reform bill even thought it did not provide the more “ far reaching ” reforms ( Kennedy ) or “ fuller solution ” ( Burns ) he sought.

Pacelli requested a full American ambassador to the Vatican, but the best Roosevelt could do was a " personal envoy ".

Roosevelt requested that Karski meet with Justice Frankfurter, as it would be of vital concern for Frankfurter, himself a Jew, to be apprised of the horrors befalling his fellow Jews in Poland.

Although the British ambassador to the United States requested removal of markers claiming U. S. sovereignty, President Franklin Roosevelt formally placed the island under control of the U. S. Interior department on 3 March 1938.

In April 1944, four months into a nationwide strike by the company ’ s 12, 000 workers, U. S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company because the president refused to settle the strike, as requested by the Roosevelt administration because of its adverse effect on the delivery of needed goods in wartime.

A reform-minded Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt requested that Parran be loaned to the State of New York, where in April 1930 Parran took up his post as state health commissioner.

After Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt requested assignment to combat duty.

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.

This hymn was among those sung at a Church Service aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales attended by Winston Churchill ( who requested that the hymn be sung ) and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the conference creating the Atlantic Charter.

Baker's grand-nephew, Roosevelt Curry, requested the pardon in 2003, aided by the Georgia-based prison advocacy group, Prison and Jail Project.

On July 25, 1941, US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson requested that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt issue orders calling the military forces of the Commonwealth into active service for the United States.