Word: anti-new
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...foregone conclusion, but the strength of the opposition was surprising. Against Williams were 19 Democrats, most of them from the South, and 33 Republicans. On his side were 31 Democrats, 1 Progressive, 4 Republicans. Not in nearly six years had a Presidential nomination been turned down.* For the anti-New Deal bloc it was a thumping victory; for the White House it was a stinging and perhaps significant defeat...
...Most prone to believe rumors were mechanics, clerks, salesmen, housewives, oldsters, fault finders, people who objected to rationing, anti-New Dealers. People who had relatives or close friends in combat overseas took less stock in rumors than those making smaller sacrifices...
...effortlessly in their circles as he once did among the poor of Manhattan's lower east side. Bernard Baruch's wedding present to the Hopkinses was a sumptuous dinner for 50 at Washington's Carlton Hotel? a fairly routine affair of its kind, which raised the blood pressure of anti-New Deal newspapers...
...light of her imminent retirement, political pundits began to reappraise the career of this small, plumpish woman who, in her unfashionable tricorn hat, has long bustled in & out of Administration councils. Most surprising opinion came from the Baltimore Sun's bitterly anti-New Deal Columnist Frank Kent. He wrote: "Far from being the worst Secretary of Labor we have had, good argument can be made that Miss Perkins is the best...
Then up rose Kentucky's cocky, talkative Happy Chandler, always ready to go a few rounds when the spotlight is on. Happy Chandler had appeared in the Senate ring, on occasion, as anti-British, anti-Russian, anti-New Deal. This time he was anti-rich folks. Cried he: "Mr. President, I sometimes wonder who won the election. . . . Instead of poor folks obtaining jobs, the Wall Street boys are obtaining jobs, and we are clearing everything with Harry Hopkins. ... I know very little about these nominees, [but] there are some questions I should like...