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46 unusual facts about Franklin D. Roosevelt


99th Flying Training Squadron

Colonel Benjamin Davis forcefully denied the claims by committee members, but only the intervention of Colonel Emmett "Rosie" O'Donnell prevented a recommendation for disbandment of the squadron from being sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Allison Brooks

In 2002, General Brooks was interviewed on the subject of whether President Franklin D. Roosevelt should have ordered the bombing of the Nazi death camps during World War II.

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

As it was a monetary law, it required the approval of the President of the United States; Franklin D. Roosevelt did not give his.

This Senate then advocated a new bill that won President Franklin D. Roosevelt's support, this would be the Tydings–McDuffie Act,

Canadian federal election, 1935

In the last months of his time in office, he reversed his position, however, copying the popular New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt in the United States.

Chen Liting

The actress Wang Ying even performed an English version of the play in the White House for President Roosevelt and his wife.

Citizen V

A photograph of this image is released around the world, and then-President Roosevelt demands a true super-soldier from his advisors, rather than a normal soldier wearing a special uniform.

Copeland Report

This report became the blueprint for forestry in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and had its beginnings in a senatorial discussion of unemployment, where reforestation might be a source for jobs.

Cornell University College of Human Ecology

As the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York from 1928 to 1932, and later as America's First Lady, from 1933 to 1945 (during her husband's tenure as President of the United States), she employed her fame and influence in ways that resulted in greater financial support for home economics programs and increased publicity for the College.

Crescent Porter Hale

In late February, 1937, Hale wrote President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning about reports of Japanese plans to fish for Bristol Bay salmon.

David F. Schmitz

The triumph of internationalism : Franklin D. Roosevelt and a world in crisis, 1933-1941 Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2007 ISBN 9781574889307

David Lowman

His book, two-thirds of which Lowman claims to be citation and reproductions of declassified documents from Magic intercepts to FBI reports, argues that the intelligence available to President Roosevelt revealed that disloyalty was widespread among resident alien Japanese and even Japanese Americans during World War II (citing, for instance, the Niihau Incident).

Domhnall Ua Buachalla

(One of the few other occasions Ua Buachalla was mentioned at all in public was when, in the aftermath of the death of King George V in January 1936, he had to reply to messages of condolence sent to the Irish people by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull.)

Douglas Dolphin

One was procured by the U.S. Navy as a transport for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Emanuel Vardi

He had the distinction of being asked to perform a solo recital at the White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II.

Federal Security Agency

Pursuant to the Act, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued "Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1939" on April 25, 1939.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's record on civil rights

Some of his closest political associates, such as Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Baruch and Samuel I. Rosenman, were Jewish.

History of Newfoundland and Labrador

In 1940 Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to an exchange of American destroyers for access to British naval bases in the Atlantic, including Newfoundland.

Iron Munro

President Roosevelt asked Munro and the others to join the Squadron, about which Munro was reluctant, but he accompanied them on a cross-country War Bond promotion.

Jakob Heine

Heine was also honoured at Warm Springs, Georgia, USA, where his bronze bust can be found along with those of other polio experts and US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Polio Hall of Fame.

Marion Center, Pennsylvania

In 1933, Marion Center Bank earned the reputation of "the bank that did not close during the Depression" after President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered all banks to close for a Bank Holiday on March 4.

Mary Hartline

Her father was involved in local politics, becoming chairman of the Montgomery County Democratic Party and, after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president, the Hillsboro postmaster.

Military history of the Philippines during World War II

On July 25, 1941, US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson requested that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt issue orders calling the military forces of the Commonwealth into active service for the United States.

Morris Ernst

He counted Justice Louis Brandeis as a close friend and later had close personal relationships with Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and New York Governor Herbert Lehman.

Mount Hood Golf Club

The land that comprises Mount Hood was donated to the City of Melrose and developed as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration in the early 1930s.

It was built in the 1930s on donated land as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration and once consisted of a ski area.

National Cooperative Soil Survey

In 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Soil Erosion Service under the Department of the Interior.

No. 242 Group RAF

At Casablanca, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder persuaded American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and their staffs to establish an air force command structure based on the previously successful coordination of No. 205 (Heavy Bomber) Group, No. 201 (Naval Co-operation) Group, and AHQ Western Desert during the North African Campaign of 1942, primarily in Egypt and Libya.

Non-belligerent

The economic support given by the Americans was through the Lend Lease Program which saw the United States provide the United Kingdom "all possible assistance short of war" in the words of Winston Churchill, but they remained a non-belligerent state in the war until President Roosevelt formally declared war on Japan following the attacks on Pearl harbor.

Otto Hirsch

In 1938, he represented German Jews at the international Évian Conference in France, convened at the initiative of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Palisades Interstate Parkway

With this favorable momentum for the new route, the proposed route was accepted as a Civil Works Administration project under Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal coalition.

Paul Derringer

On May 24 of that season, he started the first night game in major league history, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1; President Franklin D. Roosevelt turned on the stadium lights from the White House.

Paul Jarrico

The film was created under pressure from president Franklin D. Roosevelt to garner sympathy from the public for the Soviet cause in their war against Germany.

Puerto Rico Office of Management and Budget

The Office was formerly known as the "Bureau of the Budget", was created by Law 213 of May 12, 1942, during the administration of Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell, who was part of the brain trust of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and who was appointed as the last non-native Puerto Rican governor by Roosevelt.

Quit India Movement

The only outside support came from the Americans, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured Prime Minister Winston Churchill to give in to Indian demands.

Rawlins County, Kansas

The last Democrat to carry the county was Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, when the GOP standard bearer was Kansas Governor Alf Landon.

Repatriation of Cossacks after World War II

The agreements of the Yalta and Tehran Conferences, signed by President Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin, and Prime Minister Churchill, determined the fates of the Cossacks who did not fight for the USSR, because many were POWs of the Nazis.

Roosevelt College Marikina

Roosevelt College Marikina is a private non-sectarian college named in honor of the American president Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Sagay, Negros Occidental

On July 26, 1942 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States of America ordered a national mobilization in the Philippines and on August 23, 1942, the first group of reservist in Negros were called on duty by virtue of Philippine Army HQ order of August 4 and they were trained here.

Sandy Ullrich

Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that it would, and therefore teams needed players to fill the spots of players that had left.

Southern Railway 1401

Its most famous and historic use was as one of the locomotives that pulled President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral train from Warm Springs, Georgia, to Washington in April 1945.

Tacoma-class frigate

In 1942, the success of German submarines against Allied shipping and the shortage of escorts with which to protect Allied sea lines of communication convinced U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt of a need to engage mercantile shipbuilders in the construction of warships for escort duty.

Tex Thompson

Mr. America was a member of the All-Star Squadron, but his main contribution to the war effort came later; Thompson is asked by President Roosevelt himself to go battle the Nazis in Germany as The Americommando.

Warren Atherton

Through his ties and leadership within the American Legion, he was the author and ardent promoter of the G.I. Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944), which was eventually signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

William Sinnott

William Sinnott (14 August 1886 in Florida(?) –29 March 1965 in Miami Beach, Florida), who was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 1940 in recognition of his service to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during an assassination attempt on FDR in 1933.

Yevgeniy Fiks

These movies were made at the behest of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to promote Soviet-American relationship during World War II.


A Bird in the Head

Due to the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, filming ended early out of respect for the deceased Commander-in-chief.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

Prior to the outbreak of World War II, McCormick obtained interviews with Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, German leader Adolf Hitler, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Popes Pius XI and XII, and other world leaders.

Baltimore Municipal Airport

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill departed from "Baltimore Municipal Airport" on a 1942 British Overseas Airways Company (BOAC) flight (today it is "British Airways") after visiting President Franklin D. Roosevelt in what was at first, a secret trip to the White House in Washington, D.C. for Allied consultations shortly after America entered the War following the Japanese bombing at Pearl Harbor, on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

Boake Carter

After achieving fame, he was a familiar radio voice, but his commentaries were controversial, notably his criticisms of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations.

China Hands

Hurley, a Republican recruited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to promote a bipartisan China policy, initially felt there was no more difference between the Chinese communists and Nationalists than between the Democrats and Republicans in his home state of Oklahoma, but wanted to form a coalition government led by Chiang Kai-shek.

Desert bighorn sheep

In 1939, after intense lobbying by Frederick Russell Burnham and the Arizona Boy Scouts, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a proclamation to establish two desert areas in southwestern Arizona to help preserve the desert bighorn sheep: Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge.

Desk

The Resolute desk in the Oval Office has been used by many presidents, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Harry S.Truman and President John F. Kennedy.

Deversoir Air Base

The airfield received United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 12, 1945 as he flew from the Yalta Conference to rejoin the USS Quincy, which was anchored in the Great Bitter Lake and would host the President's meetings with King Farouk of Egypt, King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia before transporting him back to the United States.

Einstein–Szilárd letter

The Einstein–Szilárd letter was a letter written by Leó Szilárd and signed by Albert Einstein that was sent to the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 2, 1939.

Eliza Grant

Her only records are a result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Federal Writers’ Project, which she was interviewed for in 1938.

Fifth Party System

With Republicans losing support because of the Great Depression, the four consecutive elections, 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944, of Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the Democrats dominance, though in domestic issues the conservative coalition generally controlled Congress from 1938 to 1964.

Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden

It spans more than five acres and currently has more than 70 international sculptures, by figural and abstract artists such as Jean Arp, Deborah Butterfield, Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Auguste Rodin, David Smith, Claire Falkenstein, Gaston Lachaise, Henri Matisse, Francisco Zúñiga, and others.

Franklin D. Sherwood

In November 1891, he was elected to the State Senate, but his Democratic opponent Charles E. Walker contested the election in the courts.

Gordon Woodbury

In 1920, Franklin D. Roosevelt resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in order to run for Vice President in the 1920 presidential election.

Harold Israel

However, despite being snubbed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was United States Secretary of the Navy at the time, he was chosen by Roosevelt as his first Attorney General.

Henry L. Stimson Center

The Center draws inspiration from the life and work of Henry L. Stimson, whose bipartisan service to five presidents included appointments as Secretary of War for Presidents William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, and Secretary of State for President Herbert Hoover.

Hill Blackett

Blackett was a member of the Republican National Committee and guided the campaign of Alf Landon, who ran unsuccessfully against the incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 US presidential election.

History of the University of North Georgia

Although the state of Georgia was allocated $250 million by President Roosevelt's New Deal it was not enough to entirely alleviate the financial distress of many of the state's colleges, including NGC.

Jacob E. Smart

In this position, he was involved with the planning of the invasion of Europe and participated in the meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Casablanca, Morocco in 1943.

James Larkin Pearson

He used his paper to promote liberal economic policies and politicians who supported those policies, such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal programs.

Little Green House on K Street

In 1934, Congressman Fred Britten of Illinois famously compared the Red House on R Street in Georgetown, where the original New Dealers strategized during the early years of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration, to the Little Green House on K Street.

Lou Chiozza

In the White House, president Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button that lit up Crosley Field, where a crowd of 20,422 fans, sizable for a last-place team in the middle of the Great Depression, came out to watch the game.

National Jewish Welfare Board

In 1941, in a response to a mandate from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, six private organizations - the YMCA, YWCA, the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Traveler's Aid Association and the Salvation Army were challenged to handle the on-leave morale and recreational needs for members of the Armed Forces.

Paul Martin Pearson

On October 19, 1933, the populace of the Virgin Islands voted in a popular referendum whether or not to ask President Franklin D. Roosevelt to withdraw him.

Point of divergence

In Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, an alternate history novel in which Germany and Japan win World War II, the point of divergence is Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempted assassination by Giuseppe Zangara in 1933, which did take place in its timeline and led to an Axis victory in a prolonged Second World War in 1948.

Richard Whitehead Young

Henry Richards was a son of Phinehas Richards and his wife Wealthy Dewey, and thus a brother of Franklin D. Richards.

Roberta Lawson

During the Great Depression and the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lawson was selected for Eleanor Roosevelt's National Committee for the Mobilization for Human Needs (1933-1934).

Roosevelt College

Named in honor of the American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, its former name was Roosevelt Memorial High School.

Sidney Carr Mize

On January 30, 1937, Mize was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi vacated by Edwin R. Holmes.

SS Buskø

In April 1941 the Roosevelt Administration signed an agreement with the Danish minister in Washington, Henrik Kauffmann, who refused to take orders from (now German occupied) Copenhagen.

Thomas Joseph Walker

On June 11, 1940, President Roosevelt nominated Walker to serve as a Judge for the United States Customs Court, to the seat vacated by Judge Jerry Bartholomew Sullivan.

Thomas Richard Owen

While he was based in the Azores, one of his most memorable experiences was deciding, on meteorological grounds, whether it was suitable for Churchill and Roosevelt to hold their famous meeting in the mid-Atlantic.

Thomas Whitfield Davidson

On January 22, 1936, Davidson was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated by Edward R. Meek.

Tyler Kent

With a position that required him to encode and decode sensitive telegrams, Kent had access to a wide range of secret documents, especially the communications between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he began to take many of the more interesting ones home with him.

VFA-81

Their first deployment was with CVG-17 in late 1956 aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Suez Crisis.

Willard Thorp

Willard L. Thorp (1899–1992) was an economist and academic who served three US Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower as an advisor in both domestic and foreign affairs.