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4 days ago · Theodore Roosevelt’s Long-Lost Pocket Watch Surfaces at a Florida Auction House. Thieves stole the timepiece, a gift from the president’s sister, from an unlocked display case in 1987
3 days ago · Grace Roosevelt C. T. Lee: 6–4, 6–0, 7–5: 1892: Mabel Cahill Clarence Hobart: ... Frew McMillan: 3–6, 6–2, 7–5 1977: Betty Stöve Frew McMillan: Billie ...
2 days ago · Ever alert to the winds of public opinion, Roosevelt responded by activating the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which had lain dormant because of Cleveland’s and McKinley’s refusal to enforce it and also because of the Supreme Court’s ruling of 1895 that the measure did not apply to combinations in manufacturing.
4 days ago · Both left important political legacies: Franklin Roosevelt was the president who led the United States through the Great Depression and WWII, and fascinating facts about Eleanor Roosevelt 's life include how she organized press conferences at the White House exclusively for women journalists.
1 day ago · Manhattan District shoulder sleeve insignia. The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada.
Roosevelt saw it as crucial to turn Indians into individual Americans and not members of separate tribal nations. He called the General Allotment Act of 1887, which broke up reservations into individually held parcels of private property, a “mighty pulverizing engine to break up the tribal mass.”
4 days ago · President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave this speech in Philadelphia at the Democratic National Convention in 1936, at which he was nominated for a second term. In it, he explained why New Deal reforms and spending programs were necessary.
