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...janan.ganesh@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Leaders are not mere politicians and this is why / From Patrick J Allen, River Forest, IL, US...
...On another bench, less than a mile away, sit Churchill and Roosevelt, immortalised in bronze bonhomie by her father, the sculptor Lawrence Holofcener....
...Even in the first 12 months of Franklin D Roosevelt’s presidency, the direction of policy was undecided, an indecision that contributed to the failure of the World Economic Conference in London in 1933....
...How to nurture and empower those enlightened political leaders, the successors to Franklin D Roosevelt who Wolf credits with saving democratic capitalism in the 1930s?...
...Since Kissinger puts Robespierre and Lenin in the former camp and Metternich and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the latter, it is not hard to see where his sympathies lie....
...His new book ‘The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism’ is published by Allen Lane on February 2 Letters in response to this article: Here’s my manifesto for a true democratic capitalism / From Roger Steare...
...Letter in response to this article: Ensuring spending lasts is key to Build Back Better / From Patrick J Allen, River Forest, IL, US...
...Nor was the Nixon shock unprecedented; the $35 peg itself was established by Franklin Roosevelt after he had devalued the dollar by breaking an earlier gold peg....
...A presidency that was likened to Franklin Roosevelt’s in its domestic ambition is starting to slow....
...Furthermore, Churchill and Roosevelt had to keep the war with Japan in mind....
...The Roosevelt Institute’s Konczal is one of the warriors in this fight, arguing fiercely for the need to set much narrower limits on what is left to markets than has been the case in recent decades....
...Sen recalls visitors to the ashram included Eleanor Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek and, of course, Mohandas Gandhi, who was murdered by a Hindu nationalist....
...He is best known for designing the insides of Octopus, finished in 2003 for Paul Allen, a founder of Microsoft....
...It memorialises military units known as the “honorary first defenders”, including the Allen Rifles from my Pennsylvania hometown....
...Yet they knew it to be inevitable, and not just because of President Roosevelt’s anti-colonial instincts, or the strictures of the Atlantic Charter....
...He is especially good on Franklin D Roosevelt’s revival of bimetallism in the 1930s, and on the manipulation of the silver market in the 1970s and 1980s by Nelson Bunker Hunt, a Texas oil billionaire....
...With his commitment to levelling up poorer regions and favourable references to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, Boris Johnson has also indicated a new direction of travel....
...Job moves Allen & Overy has hired Tess Fang in Hong Kong. Fang joins from White & Case. Leonard Jacoby has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s technology transactions group in New York....
...Roosevelt’s New Deal....
...Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, by Roderick Beaton, Allen Lane, RRP£30/University of Chicago Press, RRP$35 Roderick Beaton’s impressive book sets Greece’s recent troubles in the context of recurrent...
...Tim Allen, Sioux County Republican chairman, says social issues motivate his voters more than economic ones....
...in June 1941 and Franklin D Roosevelt’s death in April 1945, Josef Stalin exchanged some 682 letters and messages with Winston Churchill and Roosevelt....
...Churchill: Walking With Destiny , by Andrew Roberts, Allen Lane RRP£35/Viking RRP$40, 1,105 pages The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt, edited by David Reynolds...
...In this book, Edwards analyses the default that followed President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1933 decision to devalue the dollar against gold....
...Teddy Roosevelt, the ebullient former president, said of the robber barons: “No amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them”....
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