Articles for tag: 1940, 1940s, Liberal Politics, Roosevelt

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Election of 1940: Franklin Roosevelt Breaks the Two Term Tradition

Candidates: Democratic Party: Franklin Roosevelt (New York) and Henry Wallace (Iowa) Republican Party: Wendell Willkie (New York) and Charles McNary (Oregon) Election Results: Roosevelt and Wallace: 27.31 million popular votes, 449 electoral votes. Willkie and McNary: 22.34 million popular votes, 82 electoral votes. Summary: As the 1940 presidential election loomed large, the question of whether ...

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Haunted Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California,is a historic hotel that has hosted some legendary movies stars and has been part of Hollywood movie history. Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is across the street from Grauman’s Chinese Theater, famous for the “Walk of Fame” where Hollywood stars get recognition with “Stars” on the sidewalk. The Hollywood Roosevelt ...

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Election of 1932: Hoover vs Roosevelt in the Midst of Depression

Candidates: Democratic Party: Franklin Roosevelt (New York) and John Nance Garner (Texas) Republican Party: Herbert Hoover (California) and Charles Curtis (Kansas) Socialist Party: Norman Thomas (New York) and James Maurer (Pennsylvania) Election Results: Roosevelt and Garner: 22.82 million popular votes, 472 electoral votes. Hoover and Curtis: 15.76 million popular votes, 59 electoral votes. Thomas and ...

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Haunted America: The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California

Many of us missed the opportunity to see Marilyn Monroe alive and in her prime, but not to worry, you can still see the movie starlet when visiting the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California. The only problem with seeing the beauty is that it’s only her ghostly image that is ...

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Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt and the Medal of Honor

Theodore Roosevelt, who went on to become our twenty-sixth president after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, was a doer of great deeds. He became known as a “trust-buster, was the driving force behind the Panama Canal, was awarded a Nobel peace Prize, and won the presidency outright on his own in 1904. Theodore ...

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Election of 1912: The Return of the “Bull Moose” and the Divided Republican Party

Candidates: Democratic Party: Woodrow Wilson (New Jersey) and Thomas Marshall (Indiana) Progressive Party: Theodore Roosevelt (New York) and Hiram Johnson (California) Republican Party: William Howard Taft (Ohio) and Nicholas Butler (New York) Socialist Party: Eugene Debs (Indiana) and Emil Seidel (Wisconsin) Election Results: Wilson and Marshall: 6.29 million popular votes, 435 electoral votes. Roosevelt and ...

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Election of 1908: Roosevelt Abdicates to William Howard Taft

Candidates: Republican Party: William Howard Taft (Ohio) and James Sherman (New York) Democratic Party: William Jennings Bryan (Nebraska) and John Kern (Indiana) Socialist Party: Eugene Debs (Indiana) and Benjamin Hanford (New York) Election Results: Taft and Sherman: 7.67 million popular votes, 321 electoral votes. Bryan and Kern: 6.40 million popular votes, 162 electoral votes. Debs ...