BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Tod R. Chambers has been named general manager of The Roosevelt in New Orleans, which is scheduled to re-open as a Waldorf=Astoria Collection hotel in the Spring of 2009. He most recently served as general manager of the Doubletree([R]) Hotel New Orleans, a position held since...
THE STORY OF George W. Bush is a work in progress. At this point in history, his public support rivals the historic lows of Pres. Harry Truman after he fired Gen. Douglas McArthur, as well as Pres. Richard Nixon after Watergate. While his presidency is not yet over and his...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On October 29, 1929, the world turned upside down. For more than a month, stock prices, which had risen to giddy new levels throughout the decade now known as "the Roaring Twenties," had been faltering. Since early September, when stock prices peaked, the market had lost about...
STALIN'S WARS: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953, Geoffrey Roberts, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006, 468 pages. FROM ROOSEVELT TO TRUMAN: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War, Wilson D. Miscamble, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, 393 pages, $27.99. MY DEAR MR. STALIN: The Complete...
DONALD, Aida D. Lion in the White House; a life of Theodore Roosevelt. Read by Pam Ward. 7 cds. 8 hrs. Blackstone Audio. 2007. 978-1-4332-0401-2. $55.00. Vinyl; content, author, reader notes. SA Donald has captured the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt and Ward's matter-of-fact, no-nonsense reading brings it to life....
REGULATION AND PUBLIC INTERESTS: THE POSSIBILITY OF GOOD REGULATORY GOVERNMENT. By Steven P. Croley. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. xii, 379. Cloth, $65; paper, $27.95. INTRODUCTION There is no hidden agenda in Steven Croley's (1) new book. Franklin D. Roosevelt's...
Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy BY KEITH WHITTINGTON NEW JERSEY: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007. pp. 296. $49.00 INTRODUCTION I. THE POLITICAL UTILITY OF COURTS II. THE GROWTH OF JUDICIAL SUPREMACY III. THE PEOPLE'S COURT?...
, with the headline Thousands in Mass. Foreclosed on in 07. The subhead was 7,563 homes were seized, nearly 3 times the 06 rate. A few nights before, CBS television reported that 750,000 people with disabilities have been waiting for years for their Social Security benefits because the system is...
To the Editor: Bette Roth Young (Midstream, March/ April 2007) cites the convening of the American Jewish Conference in 1943 as evidence that "American Jews did not sit idly by" during the Holocaust. She describes the conference as an "astonishing achievement" which "has...
ABSTRACT Insufficient scholarly attention has been devoted to alternative or "oppositional" serials from the political right, even though a number of scholars have used these materials as primary sources for studies in several academic disciplines. This overview reviews some of the terms used to describe these serials, explores the...
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Beth Dempsey for Schlager Group, +1-248-349-7810, beth@bethdempsey.com DALLAS, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- How would December 7 - Pearl Harbor Day - be remembered without President Franklin D. Roosevelt's powerful address to Congress on December 8, 1941? Historians see that speech as a turning point in American history,...
President Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday in November in 1939, safeguarding the country against those years, like this one, when a fifth Thursday in the month would have placed the holiday perilously close to Christmas. The national day of thanks had been celebrated on the last...
With more than a year left in the fading Bush presidency, Karl Rove’s worst days in the White House may still lie ahead of him. I met Rove on one of his best days, a week after Bush’s reelection. The occasion was a reporters’ lunch hosted by The Christian Science...
June 25, 1941--Executive Order 8802 was issued by President Franklin Roosevelt to prohibit discrimination in the defense industry or government, and it created the Fair Employment Practices Committee FEPC to monitor hiring practices on this day. Called the second Emancipation Proclamation, it might not have happened if not for A....
President George W. Bush has likened the war on terror to the struggles Americans faced in World War II, explaining that today's terrorist enemies are "successors to Fascists, to Nazis ... and other totalitarions of the 20th century."1 Yet the Bush administration has left the lessons of World War II...
President George W. Bush has argued that the Senate ought to hold final up-or-down floor votes on all of his judicial nominations rather than use various parliamentary procedures to prevent such action. Some scholars argue that there is no traditional mandate for such a demand, and that the Senate is...
How Progressives Rewrote The Constitution. By Richard A. Epstein. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute. 2006. Pp. xiii, 156. $15.95. INTRODUCTION The utmost possible liberty to the individual, and the fullest possible protection to him and his property, is both the limitation and ...
THURMAN ARNOLD: A BIOGRAPHY. By Spencer Weber Waller. New York and London: New York University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 273. $40. INTRODUCTION What types of lawyers are most worthy of a professional biography? The question requires one to pose a threshold for...
Another industrial site on Roosevelt Boulevard has sold, this time to an undisclosed buyer, raising the possibility that another shopping center on the busy thoroughfare may be on the horizon. The 11501 Roosevelt Blvd. site is part of a complex leased by the federal government for use by the...
Whenever Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who died last week at age 89, was asked whether individuals or abstract forces play the larger role in shaping history, he would propose a speculative scenario. In the early 1930s, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt both nearly died. Churchill was struck by a car...
