Word: dealishness
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...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...
Otha Donner Wearin is a 35-year-old farmer from the Vale of Nishna near Hastings, Iowa. He wears a permanent red necktie, has some ability at hog-calling, writes for farm papers. In the Roosevelt avalanche of 1932 he slid into the House but was not conspicuously New Dealish (he voted against AAA and NRA) until lately, when he has run with Maury Maverick's "Young Turks...
...able trial lawyer, he was at one time Dean of West Virginia University's Law School and left there in 1930 with offers of professorships in both the Harvard and Yale Law Schools. He chose Yale, helped Dean Charles E. Clark and Walton Hamilton make it as New Dealish as Felix Frankfurter's Harvard...