Presidents of Manifest Destiny showman in inaugural era
A critical look at Franklin D Roosevelt’s ascent and early New Deal. The piece argues his charm masked deception, notes advisers who praised and doubted his credibility, and chronicles his first hundred days actions including bank closures, relief measures, and the shift from Gold Standard to expansive federal programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Harold Ickes
Rexford Tugwell
Donald Richberg
Henry Morgenthau
Richberg
Henry Thoreau
Herbert Hoover
Thomas
Tommy
Corcoran
Brain Trust
Andrew Jackson
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Congress
Chicago
Hoover
Franklin
Josephus Daniels
Navy
Daniels
Prediction for 1985 Hall of Congresswomen
Helen Delich Bentley projects women will hold half the House and a third of the Senate within 12 years, citing under 30 voter trends. She notes 119 women in top government posts, including five generals and one admiral, plus 1,200 women in middle-management roles in Washington over the last 15 months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Maine
Margaret Chase Smith
House of Representatives
Senate
Helen Delich Bentley
Federal Maritime Commission
Nixon
Bentley
University of Minnesota
Council of Economic Advisers
Atomic Energy Commission
Tariff Commission
National Endowment For the Arts
U.S. Tax
United States
U.S. Mint
Maritime Commission
Washington
Women in Politics Aims and Self Belief Hurdles
The piece notes about 250 women elected to roles in the 99th Congress in 1965 and cites Mrs. Bentley on a barrier. She says many men, especially younger men, have more faith in women's abilities than the women themselves, hindering progress.
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Bentley
Slang Shifts Meaning From Gorp To Obscenity
The piece recalls how the slang term gorp once used by Miami police for antiwar demonstrators reappeared with a different sense at a 16 year old Cedar Rapids trial implying obscene material. The author notes words evolve and cites a language quip about feeling badly versus feeling bad.
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Miami
Gorp
Bruce Fishwild
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Language notes on feel avuncular and related words
The column discusses grammar and usage quirks such as feel as a linking verb vs an adverb and well as the scarce aunt-related adjectives. It notes dictionaries offering auntish auntlike and auntly and questions why no male equivalent exists for lesbian terminology, reflecting on gender language.
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Lillian Aronoff
Philadelphia
Women’s Liberationists
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New Sea
Manifest Destiny
Mage
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Insight Shop
Teen Town Gallery of Fine Bedrooms
Time Tunnel
Drexel Gallery
Provincetown Colonial
Diners den
Drexel
Boudoir
On Ches
Hall
Collins Road
N.E
Hall of Congressmen
By Don Oakley
U.S
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Don Oakley
Theodore M. Bernstein
Special Features Syndicate
New York Times
Theodore M
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