But in these days of 300-hp four-bangers, is there still value in choosing the bigger engine? Certainly the answer depends on the car and the carmaker. And so we busied ourselves with the list below, an overview of which automakerâs optional horsepower is the cheapest. We began by compiling the prices and outputs of a selection of available performance vehicles.
Court-packing plan. Roosevelt's proposal in 1937 to reform the Supreme Court by appointing an additional justice for every justice over age 70; following the Court's actions in striking down major New Deal laws, FDR came to believe that some justices were out of touch with the nation's needs.ew Deal program that paid farmers not to produce crops; it provided farmers with income while reducing crop surpluses and helped stabilize farm production. The Supreme Court declared major parts of this law unconstitutional in 1936, helping lead FDR to his court-packing plan.
In 1920, Roosevelt ran for vice president alongside presidential candidate James M. Cox but the Cox/Roosevelt ticket lost to the Republican ticket of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Roosevelt was stricken with polio in 1921, which cost him the use of his legs and put his political career on hold for several years.Roosevelt attempted to recover from this illness, and founded a treatment center for people with polio in Warm Springs, Georgia.ucy was with FDR on the day he died. Despite this, FDR's affair was not widely known until the 1960s. Roosevelt's son Elliott said that Franklin also had a 20-year affair with his private secretary Marguerite Missy LeHand.