[NU Sports] Roosevelt

[Herman Wang]

He got his law degree at NU.

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives/exhibits/alumni/bryan.html


>From: "Joe Thiegs" <thiegs at umn.edu>
>To: <thehaze at earthlink.net>, <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
>Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Roosevelt
>Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:06:08 -0500
>
>Doesn't William Jennings Bryant have an NU connection of some sort?  I 
>could
>be way off base, but that seems to ring a bell, somehow.  -Joe
>
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>Behalf Of Jim Bendat
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>Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Roosevelt
>
>Okay, while we're talking about Roosevelt and politics, let me add that 
>when
>he took office in 1933, it was already eight years after the Scopes Monkey
>Trial in Tennessee.  Even in 1933, that trial was looked back upon with a
>bit of amusement, the obvious national feeling being that William Jennings
>Bryan and the state of Tennessee were a tad backward in their thinking.  It
>wasn't until recently -- 70 years later -- that the issue of so-called
>"intelligent design" has been brought up from the grave by a variety of
>reactionaries.
>
>Gee, we are getting a bit away from NU sports aren't we -- and isn't it
>fun?!!
>
>
>Dennis W. Brandt wrote:
> > <Interesting that FDR is considered one of our greatest presidents and
> > <according to my NU Poly Sci prof (Ken Janda)and many others  probably
> > saved the
> > <Capitalist system
> >
> > Actually, the capitalist system was saved by World War II and the
> > industrial boon necessary to support it.  Roosevelt's economic
> > policies did little to uplift a depression-bound economy.  He won a
> > third term - by the smallest margain of his four victories, by the way
> > - not on his record of economic gains but by promising to keep the
> > United States out of war even though he knew that was almost certainly
> > impossible.  (My maternal grandfather did some WPA work, and it did
> > help tide over his large family for a while, but economically it
> > offered him nothing in the long term.  Only in the economic glow
> > following the war did he begin to gain financially.)  Roosevelt was a
> > stellar war time president who nonetheless would have been crucified
> > had the press of his time had the same attitudes as today's fourth
> > estate.  Tell Ken Janda he needs to read some more history books.
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