Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every man who cast an honest vote for Willkie" a mellow, flute-playing historian last week dedicated a book about Franklin Roosevelt. Called Roosevelt: Dictator or Democrat,* the book has for its author Gerald White Johnson, a 51-year-old editorial writer of the Baltimore Evening Sun. For its object the book has the aim of reducing the mistrust which many of the 22,000,000 Americans who voted against Roosevelt have for their President...
These sins of omission lessen the weight of the book. The question: What sort of man is Franklin Roosevelt? is not yet clear enough to answer. Mr. Johnson's shrewd argument-that the President is not only a democrat, but a great one-may remove fears that many Americans hold about Mr. Roosevelt. But the fear that the President is leading the country into some kind of Socialism only time and Mr. Roosevelt himself can banish...
...real issue was, of course, not free speech but party regularity, and Boss Flynn was not the only good Democrat who was shaken by this bit of amiable boat-rocking. In Congress, many a loyal follower of the President thought that Franklin Roosevelt ought to sit down and stop rocking the boat...
...arranges Hitler's speeches in chronological order, divides the book into chapters corresponding to the successive political shocks which Europe has suffered in the last 20 years. A table of world events sets each speech in its proper historical context. They are enough to make a good democrat's blood boil...
...incidental effect of that landslide was significant. It launched the political career of a young Harvardman who was to learn how to appeal to crowds: in it Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt won a seat in the State Legislature...