[NU Sports] Roosevelt

[Jim Bendat]

Absolutely -- and thank you, Joe, for "reminding" us that there is 
indeed a Northwestern connection within this thread.  Bryan attended NU 
Law School.

Joe Thiegs wrote:
> 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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> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Jim Bendat
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 4:54 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Roosevelt
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> 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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