Word: dealism
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...COMMITTED TO NEW DEALISM...
...entwined with another problem: the supersensitive mood of Congress. The four Senators who talked Army Secretary Stevens into the hurtful "Memorandum of Understanding" were all Republicans, but they were acting as Senators arrayed against the Executive, not as Republicans arrayed against the Democrats. Even that solid Percheron of New Dealism, New York's Herbert Lehman, defended his last month's vote for McCarthy's committee appropriation by saying: "To withhold all funds from a legally constituted committee of the Senate would furnish grounds for a plausible claim that its activities has been sabotaged." This congressional esprit...
...probably the most widely reprinted editorial cartoonist in the U.S. (TIME, June 22). But nationally, the P-D's unpredictable behavior makes its editorials much less a power than its crusading news columns. Readers, who now think of the paper as the unwavering voice of New and Fair Dealism, forget that in 1936 the P-D supported Landon against Roosevelt. And when F.D.R. gave 50 destroyers to Britain in the early days of World War II, the P-D screamed that he had become "America's first dictator," ran its editorial in full-page ads across the country...
...wave of New Dealism that swept government in the early thirties some clandestine Communists were washed into new, hyper-liberal Federal agencies. Communism was not considered a menace per so in those days of a discouragingly sickly economy. It was quite fashionable in some circles to speak in shocking left-wing slogans. Dedicated New Dealers, earnest Fabians, and mildly argumentative Communists were often hard to distinguish...
Fred Alger made his biggest political mistake four years ago. During the Republican administration of Governor Kim Sigler, Alger got Soapy appointed to a Democratic vacancy on the bipartisan state liquor control commission. He misjudged Soapy's ebullient New Dealism, his youthful enthusiasm and his common touch as the signs of a willing political amateur. But genial, hard-plugging Soapy traveled the state like no liquor commissioner in history, soon turned a host of liquor dealers into personal friends, and turned his job into a first step on the Michigan political ladder. Kim Sigler's successor as governor...