Word: dealishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sierras, a mother eagle pushing her young one by one out of their eyrie over a sheer abyss, letting them flutter far earthward, swooping to save them just before they crashed, carrying them aloft to repeat the spartan experiment until they learned to fly. Representative Scrugham, a fairly New Dealish Democrat, was unopposed for renomination in last week's primary, will fight it out in November with Republican Harry Stewart, former mayor of Reno. But the Senatorial race in his party brought to mind Mr. Scrugham's eagle story. Young Albert Hilliard, Reno lawyer, tried his wings against...
...back in his chair at Hyde Park, Franklin Roosevelt, master politician, last week delivered to the press a lecture on political morality. It was "immoral," he said, for some 20,000 Republicans in Idaho to have voted in the Democratic primary to nominate Representative D. Worth Clark over New Dealish Senator James P. Pope (TIME, Aug. 22). Such crossing of party lines, he said, defeated the purpose of the primary system, because members of one party could pick puny opponents for their own party's candidates to beat. As in Idaho, it would be "immoral" for Republicans in Maryland...
...spent most of last week being President of the U. S., but not without firing two more hot shots into two more State primary contests. To newshawks clustered around his White House desk he vehemently read, and adopted as his own words, an editorial from the rip-snortingly New Dealish New York Post entitled "Why the President Interferes."* This explained: "These primaries will determine to a large extent the makeup of the next Congress. And that, in turn, will determine whether or not the President can keep his campaign promises to the people...
...majority) of the vote for Senator Clark, who opposed the Court Plan, Reorganization and other Roosevelt legislation, could be ascribed to his strong Favorite Son position. Comfort for the New Deal could be found in the victory of Judge James M. Douglas of St. Louis, candidate of New Dealish Governor Stark for the State Supreme Court, by 117,000 votes over Judge James V. Billings of Kennett, candidate of non-New Dealish Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City...
Last year, President Roosevelt was able to send New-Dealish Judge John Biggs Jr., 41, to join the "Four Old Men," as they impishly called themselves (TIME, March 15, 1937). Last week when three of the four ancients retired, their eldest, Judge Joseph Buffmgton, snowy-domed and bright-eyed at 82, drew himself up to make a speech...