Word: dealishness
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Brotherhood president, tough, New Dealish Alexander Fell Whitney, first worked out this plan in Chicago where he put several thousand laid-off yardmen to work on railroads desperately short of switchmen. ODT figures that next year the railroads will need 450,000 new employes to handle increased traffic, replace those gone to war. Whitney's plan would help cut this number...
James Scrugham, 62, Nevada, a New Dealish onetime college professor, who has been Nevada's lone Representative since 1933, has worked hard in committee on naval appropriations, has voted with the Administration on practically everything except farm and trade measures which would affect his cattle-growing constituency. Balding, husky-throated James Scrugham will take the late Key Pittman's place in the Senate...
Except for Moore, Democrats held the G.O.P. revolt in check. They squeezed in New Dealish Robert S. Kerr as Governor by 15,000 votes, elected seven of Oklahoma's eight Congressmen. Because Republicans underestimated their own strength, dozens of local offices went to the Democrats by default...
...usual, the Democrats had done little better: the. Chicago Times had popped valiantly away for big, New-Dealish Economist Paul H. Douglas; but no one had had much to say either for or against the Kelly-Nash candidate, Democratic Congressman Raymond S. McKeough...
...make a note in his memorandum book-Wednesday (or Saturday)-lunch at Madame Tabouis' house.' " Actors, poets, writers also came. Once the conversation was about Royalist Writer Léon Daudet's unforgettable nicknames for people he did not like. He called New Dealish Léon Blum "the Circumcized Hermaphrodite." A bewhiskered Rightist deputy was "our most Distinguished Burper." Foreign Minister Boncour was "the Don Juan of the Washrooms." Author Tabouis herself became "Madame Tata, the Clairvoyant...