Word: dealishness
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...first problem was what to call the new agency. "War on Poverty" had to be dropped because it formed an acronym offensive to Italians; the pallid OEO was adopted instead. To avoid a recurrence of New Dealish alphabet-soup titles, programs were given catchy names rather than initials. VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) was an exception, and so was CAP (Community Action Program). At the local level, though, it was acronyms aweigh. Detroit opened TAP (Total Action Against Poverty). New York insisted on BEST (Basic Essential Skills Training) and QUEST (Queens Educational and Social Team). There was PROP (Portland...
...crew member (nine combat missions in the Pacific), Wallace returned to Alabama, put on his political boxing gloves and began slugging. He talked himself into a job as state assistant attorney general, and in 1947 was elected to the legislature. There he sponsored a series of New Dealish bills aimed at helping Alabama in its desperate reach for prosperity...
...Such Little Things." In the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt, still protesting that she was basically shy, blossomed into the most assertive First Lady in U.S. history. She began writing a daily newspaper column, "My Day," which was carried by as many as 90 newspapers. She was far more New Dealish than F.D.R. ever thought of being. But he knew better than to try to censor her. Once, when she asked his advice about a column, he replied: "Lady, this is a free country.'' Her own attitude about her varied activities was that ''I always felt that...
...against was evident in the jeering reception that the task force's report got from much of New York's press. "Ridiculous," cried Long Island's Newsday. "Smells of defeatism," muttered the New York Daily News. In rare agreement, the Wall Street Journal and the Fair Dealish New York Post cried that deterrent power, not shelters, is the only safeguard against nuclear attack...
Perhaps more than anyone else, McCormack will be guided this year by the 1958 election results. In the 85th Congress he knew that every time he scheduled a New Dealish labor or welfare bill for floor action, he could expect about 40 Southern conservatives to join with a big majority of the 200 House Republicans in blocking the legislation. But there are far fewer Republicans, far more liberal Democrats in the 86th Congress. "We have a good working majority," says McCormack. "The coalition will be ineffective." Another McCormack rule of thumb: the later in the session that a piece...