Word: deale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was no New Deal revival: the New Deal, accepted and respectable with age, was by now almost old hat. Harry Truman, in an offhand phrase that was his own, not his speechwriters', had called the new era the Fair Deal. The young bloods of the 81st Congress had not come to Washington, cheering and defiant, to start a revolution. They had come to consolidate one. As the Democrats heard it, what the people really said last November was that they wanted not new highways but a widening of the roads that Franklin Roosevelt had built...
...Fair Dealers. Who were the new men of the Fair Deal? Returning veterans, like Iowa's white-haired, 69-year-old Senator Guy Gillette were freshmen, and perhaps Fair Dealers, in name only. Texas' New Dealing Lyndon Johnson and Tennessee's Estes Kefauver had won their spurs in the. House, and now would wear them in the Senate. Illinois' able Paul Douglas, 56, was a onetime leftish college professor (University of Chicago) and a wounded, decorated Marine veteran...
...savvy. Many of them had been stronger than the ticket, had got to Congress on their own merits. Ideologically, they were not coattail riders of Harry Truman either; they were men who had gotten their political doctrine from the same source: the collection of ideas known as the New Deal...
...most articulate spokesman of the Fair Deal among the newcomers was Minnesota's brash, bustling young Senator Hubert H. (for Horatio) Humphrey Jr., 37, a hardworking, fast-talking fireball from the Midwest...
...Minnesota campus was full of New Deal-talk. Humphrey plunged enthusiastically into the midst of it. He gulped down the New Deal ideology, lock, stock & pork-barrel. He became a big wheel in the political science department, a voluble, incessant talker-long on persuasiveness, a little short on logic. A professor once told him: "If God had given you as much brains as he has given you wind, you would be sure to be another Cicero...