Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later, in Hyde Park, the President held a press conference. Never had reporters seen Franklin Roosevelt in such a mood of passive defeatism. Though not knocked out, he appeared definitely stunned by what he had taken. Only flash of his old self was a sidelong crack to the effect that the Senate, in leaving Neutrality up in the air, causing "uncertainty" (for which he has so often been blamed) and "gambling" against war abroad, had bud-nipped a nice little boom.* > The Hatch bill effectually demolished the national Roosevelt political machine, as distinct from the national Farley machine...
...months ago Jim Farley completed a tour of 13 Midwestern and Western States to assay Roosevelt third-term sentiment. What he found was never published. He loyally saved it for Franklin Roosevelt's ear first. Weeks rolled by and Jim Farley was not asked for his information. Jim Farley did not like that. Then Mr. Roosevelt appointed brash, ambitious Paul McNutt, whom Jim Farley dislikes, to a post of honor and influence (Security Agency). Jim Farley boiled...
...Capitol of the United States stood last week as white, massive and immovable as ever under the hot July sun. But within it took place a series of political upheavals more momentous than any since the Hundred Days of 1933. Explosion after smoky explosion blew away Franklin Roosevelt's last vestige of control over both houses of Congress. When the week ended, the Democratic Party lay split asunder, with the larger half lying away from the President, coalesced with the Republicans, the smaller half crumbling toward him in frightened fragments...
Suspicious of his motives, the Congress voted not to turn Franklin Roosevelt loose in world power politics. The scene one night last week upstairs in the Oval Room at the White House, with the President of the United States making one last, futile plea to a steadfast coalition of Senators grouped against his brand of Neutrality marked the nadir of collapse. In rapid succession other collapses followed...
Then overworked Joe Robinson died, and Franklin Roosevelt played straight into McNary's hands by his choice of bumbling "Dear Alben" Barkley over Pat Harrison for his new Leader. Next came the attempted Purge, another stroke of political amateurishness. McNary grew almost profane when restless men like Vandenberg talked openly of an open coalition with the conservative Democrats whom Roosevelt was trying to read out. He encouraged his followers to go to ball games with Jack Garner, Pat Harrison and other time-biders, but kept them from doing anything that might revive loyalty to the Democratic label...