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roosevelt

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The name Roosevelt is an American surname originally derived from the Dutch place-name spelled variously as Van Rosevelt or Van Rosenvelt , meaning "from rose field" or "of a rose field." The most famous bearers of this name come from the Roosevelt family ...

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Population (2000): 280 Housing Units (2000): 179 Land area (2000): 0.476927 sq. miles (1.235235 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.476927 sq. miles (1.235235 sq. km) FIPS code: 63900 Located within: Oklahoma ...

Usage examples of roosevelt.

Roosevelt, after reading this, sent a copy to his Attorney General, W.

McCloy, George Meany, Madame Pandit, Paul Reynaud, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson.

Nixon exposed the Truman and Roosevelt administrations as having appointed known saboteur Alger Hiss to positions of influence within the government.

The man advising Roosevelt during this transaction was Alger Hiss, Soviet agent.

Roosevelt felt like seeing for himself how the barrels were deployed, everything could still cave in, like a trench with a mine touched off below it.

Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, to be held by the Roosevelt for President Club at the Biltmore Saturday.

The day before, President Roosevelt had sent a ringing message to the chiefs of state of forty-four nations outlining the plans and hopes of the United States for disarmament and peace and calling for the abolition of all offensive weapons - bombers, tanks and mobile heavy artillery.

So, during a lunch of chitlins, topped off with coffee and crackers and Liederkranz, Mrs Roosevelt told us how proud and unselfish and energetic the men and women were over the tank-assembly line at Green Diamond Plough.

Reich Government therefore breaks off all diplomatic relations with the United States and declares that under these circumstances brought about by President Roosevelt, Germany too considers herself to be at war with the United States, as from today.

In adjusting and reacting to unexpected situations, the contrast between men like Generals Roosevelt and Cota, Colonels Canham and Otway, Major Howard, Captain Dawson, Lieutenants Spaulding and Winters, and their German counterparts could not have been greater.

March 1944, Archduke Otto met again with President Roosevelt, and in the course of it, the President declared that if the Hungarian Government would declare herself ready to support the Allies at any given opportunity, he, the President, would be favorably inclined to make a statement about maintainance of the Transylvanian frontiers of 1940 and towards the settlement of the Czechoslovakian territorial questions by a popular vote.

Chelsea Piers, passing close to the Empire State Building and the Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building, coming in for an easy landing along the East River, in sight of the old deadhouse at the tip of Roosevelt Island.

Although Jews were prominent in the northern and western Democratic machines, there were several outspoken anti-Semites among the Dixiecratic contingent in Congress and Roosevelt would never think of separating from them.

In other words, Chile was pulled from depression by dull old Keynesian remediesall Franklin Roosevelt, zero Margaret Thatcher.

We were going to Elizabeth Bing, one of the pioneers in Lamaze, because the Roosevelts had gone to her.