Word: dealism
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...very pleased, had 17,437, Maverick got 16,142. Some 2,000 votes for four minor candidates made a runoff necessary. Ex-Mayor Quin got more than Maverick of both the Negro and the Mexican vote. San Antonio's businessmen were for Maverick, but Maverick's New Dealism kept them from being ardent...
Says Burnham: "We must be careful not to identify the New Deal and New Dealism with Franklin Roosevelt and his acts. Roosevelt is a brilliant and demagogic popular politician, who did not in the least create, but merely rides when it fits his purposes, the New Deal. The New Deal sprang from the inner structural drives of modern society, the forces that are operating to end capitalism and begin a new type of social organization, the same forces which at later stages and under different local circumstances produced the revolution in Russia and Germany...
...Henry Wallace) swung into action, sought cotton-belt backing for the Perkins plan. It also sought to get farmers to put their freed acreage into the production of food and feed crops, badly needed in the South. In that way the Perkins plan became more than mere peacetime New Dealism, took on a defense coloration. For defense is multiplying the South's army of industrial workers, and industrial workers must eat well to work well. If the South, traditionally an importer of food from other sections of the country, can feed its new industrial workers on land now given...
Robert Houghwout Jackson, Mr. Roosevelt's Attorney General, is the man whom the President admires above all others: for honesty, brain power, practical New Dealism, skill at interpreting and applying New Deal law. But lacking in his tie to the President is the inner intimacy which binds Roosevelt and Hopkins...
Studying these reports, and noting nothing in any major Republican candidate that could be construed as New Dealism, observers wondered whether it was Professor Schlesinger who was moonstruck, or Dr. Gallup...