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

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

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.

Believing devoutly as they did in Anglo-Saxon institutions, it was important to both Roosevelt and Churchill that the Poles should have them.

The following month the invasion of Italy was begun, and Roosevelt gave effect to his warning by consenting to the stockpiling of poison gas in southern Italy.

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.

After the preliminary business affair was finished Depew arose and delivered the convincing speech that clinched the nomination for Roosevelt.

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

No wonder Khrushchev's first message to President Kennedy was a wistful desire for the return of the `` good old days '' of Roosevelt.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

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.

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 ).

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

The response to this was President Roosevelt calling a conference of thirteen school leaders to come up with a solution to the problems that the game of football was facing.

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.

In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Casablanca was an important strategic port during World War II and hosted the Casablanca Conference in 1943, in which Churchill and Roosevelt discussed the progress of the war.

As a supporter of progressive policies, Hughes was able to play on the popularity of Theodore Roosevelt and weaken the power of the state's conservative Republican officials.

Voight next portrayed President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 2001's action / war film, Pearl Harbor, having accepted the role when Gene Hackman declined ( his performance was received favorably by critics ).

Roosevelt has been portrayed many times in film and on television.

Brian Keith portrayed Roosevelt in the 1975 film The Wind and the Lion, a dramatization of the Perdicaris incident of 1904.

Robin Williams portrayed Roosevelt in the form of a wax mannequin that comes to life in Night at the Museum and its sequel Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

Since 2000, Roosevelt has been portrayed by a number of reprisers including historian and Rhodes Scholar, Clay Jenkinson of North Dakota and Joe Wiegand of Tennessee.

Wiegand has portrayed Roosevelt in all 50 US states.

Alexander portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt in two television productions, Eleanor and Franklin ( 1976 ) and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years ( 1977 ); and she played FDR's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, in HBO's Warm Springs ( 2005 ) with Kenneth Branagh and Cynthia Nixon, a role which garnered her an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Following this, Routledge had roles in several more unsuccessful Broadway productions including a musical called Love Match, in which she played Queen Victoria ; the legendary 1976 Leonard Bernstein flop 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in which she portrayed every First Lady from Abigail Adams to Edith Roosevelt ; and a 1981 musical called Say Hello to Harvey based on the Mary Coyle Chase play Harvey, which closed in Toronto before reaching New York.

In 1982, Stapleton portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt in a television production of the First Lady's later life.

The street features " Allies ", an unusual statue by Lawrence Holofcener of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who are portrayed sitting on a park bench in conversation.

In 2009, he portrayed Franklin D. Roosevelt in the HBO movie Into the Storm, earning an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

He portrayed Franklin D. Roosevelt in the popular TV miniseries Backstairs at the White House ( 1979 ).

Albertson portrayed future U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt in the 1956 episode " Rough Rider " of CBS's My Friend Flicka television series.

Losing Tammany's support was balanced, however, by gaining the support of Theodore Roosevelt and other reform-minded Republicans who helped Cleveland to pass several laws reforming municipal governments.

Stalin met in several conferences with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ( and later Clement Attlee ) and / or U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( and later Harry Truman ) to plan military strategy and, later, to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization.

It became a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States and one of its longest-standing tenets, and would be invoked by many U. S. statesmen and several U. S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and others.

Franklin Roosevelt, who designed several American commemorative stamps while U. S. President, was a stamp collector.

Roosevelt was born into considerable wealth, for the family by the 19th century had grown in wealth, power, and influence from the profits of several businesses, including hardware and plate-glass importing.

After a briefing of several of his own expeditions, he persuaded Roosevelt to commit to such an expedition in 1912.

In all, Roosevelt wrote about 18 books ( each in several editions ), including his Autobiography, The Rough Riders History of the Naval War of 1812, and others on subjects such as ranching, explorations, and wildlife.

Roosevelt agreed with Burroughs ' criticisms, and published several essays of his own denouncing the booming genre of " naturalistic " animal stories as " yellow journalism of the woods ".

Roosevelt was also an avid reader, reading tens of thousands of books, at a rate of several a day in multiple languages.

Though he gave the impression of sympathy with progressive and liberal causes, he had no enthusiasm for the New Deal of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( which Bennett eventually tried to emulate, after floundering without solutions for several years ), and he never advocated massive government action to alleviate depression in Canada.

( Roosevelt actually made the offer of a seat on the Court on several different occasions, being met with a decline every time.

It became a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States and one of its longest-standing tenets, and would be invoked by many U. S. statesmen and several U. S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan.

Scheer later opened several popular Los Angeles bars including Teddy's at the Roosevelt Hotel named in Demme's honor.

He also helped ensure the passage of several domestic measures and foreign assistance programs advocated by Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

After several name changes, the road becomes City Avenue, the western city limit of Philadelphia, at the end of which a short overlap with the Schuylkill Expressway ( I-76 ) leads to the Roosevelt Expressway and then the twelve-lane Roosevelt Boulevard partly overlapping US 13.

This shipbuilding industry was immortalized in 1942 in the painting of several murals which still exist today in the auditorium of Theodore Roosevelt High School.

At the Democratic National Convention, Long was instrumental in keeping the delegations of several wavering states in the Roosevelt camp.

They did the routine for President Franklin Roosevelt several times.

Timothy Leary lived for several months with the Brotherhood until his December 26, 1968 arrest for possession of marijuana, near the intersection of Woodland Drive and Roosevelt Lane.

* John T. Flynn's 1948 book The Roosevelt Myth contains several references to Francis Townsend.

Glenrose South, ( 1500 Roosevelt Road ) – Provides several ball diamonds and when school is out, Thomas Jefferson Middle Schools track is available for those interested in walking.

The Great Depression brought several important Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) construction projects including the Eastern New Mexico University Administration Building, Downtown Portales Post Office, and Roosevelt County Courthouse.