Word: hooverness
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With three campaign weeks to go, that was the score. In the time that was left, what could Franklin Roosevelt do to reverse the trend? To some it seemed that up until now he had been hoping to continue the New Deal's twelve-year campaign against Herbert Hoover (see cuts). The Deweymen looked over their case" again & again, pondering the probable points of the Roosevelt attack. What, for instance, were the solid arguments for their man-arguments persuasive to independent voters...
Roared the Democrats: "THE ELEPHANT DOES FORGET" (its isolationist statements, the Hoover depression). Dewey is unpopular with his own party. Dewey is full of confused contradictions in his frantic effort to keep up with public opinion...
...speech was almost wholly satisfactory and convincing to GOPsters and anti-Roosevelt voters. Certainly it irritated New Dealers, who know that Candidate Roosevelt must make some really substantial answer to the long list of Dewey charges besides pointing out how badly things went under Herbert Hoover...
Whose Depression? Some Republican had made some remark about a "Roosevelt depression." This, Mr. Roosevelt thought, was laughable indeed: "I rubbed my eyes when I read it." Eloquently he recreated the Hoover breadlines, the apple stands, the "Hoovervilles," thus carrying on the New Deal's attack on Herbert Hoover into its twelfth successful year. This Republican prating about depression reminded him forcibly of an old adage which Republicans should keep in mind: "Never speak of a rope in the house of a man who's been hanged." In fatherly tones, Mr. Roosevelt offered the G.O.P. some advice...
Henry L. Stimson, whose weekly press conferences are Washington's most austere since Herbert Hoover's, was greeted on his 77th birthday by a chorus of reporters singing a lusty "Happy birthday, dear Henry!" Responded the shy, dignified Secretary of War: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very grateful. After that, everything seems drab." Asked to guess the date of V-day, he said: "Well, I hope I live long enough to see V-day. Further than that the prophet sayeth...