Word: dealish
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Last week a U.S. citizen clippered home from a four-weeks' London powwow with Rank bigshots, full of plans for a British blitz on Hollywood. The man: Manhattan's suave, swart lawyer Morris Ernst. New Dealish Ernst-who was also in Britain to carry out an esoteric "cultural" U.S.-British mission-had persuaded his clients that, to win over the U.S. market, British films must be distributed by the Big Five U.S. producers...
...Deal? Some Republicans feared that the President might appoint a couple of New Dealish GOPsters to the proposed War Ballot Commission. Others feared that the Administration had a natural advantage with soldier voters. Ohio's Robert Taft, proffering an amendment to forestall overseas Government political campaigning, complained: "OWI is engaged in propagandizing the entire world in behalf of the President . . . [and will] continue unless we prohibit that kind of propaganda...
Dark rumors began to circulate that perhaps the Administration hesitated to turn its unpleasant little prisoner over to New York because Lepke "knew too much." Was it possible that Governor Dewey might allow Lepke to "sing," unchallenged, on certain New Dealish labor leaders with whom he had once done business...
Wallace's bout with the Nation's carriers was staged in Dallas, which is Democratic but not New Dealish. There the Vice President was roundly snubbed by top business and civic leaders, roundly welcomed by labor groups, who pinned their insignia on his lapel. In his speech the Vice President sailed into the railroads with old-fashioned muckraking, trust-busting fervor. He swung hard...
...Right. The President, moving steadily to the right as the U.S. moved to the right, was shoring up his administration with businessmen and conservatives, such as he had available. Although the views of Messrs. Harriman & Stettinius are more New Dealish than those of most U.S. industrialists, the President in 1944 will be able to point to them, as well as to Businessmen Frank Knox, Jesse Jones, Leo Crowley, James V. Forrestal, Bernard Baruch, Donald Nelson, Chester Bowles, Robert A. Lovett, as representatives in the administration of the business viewpoint. (To Conservatives he can point out Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson...