Word: inflationist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head, however big, could carry all Mr. Roosevelt thinks he knows. . . . One day an inflationist, the next a deflationist. A fixer of prices who denounces his own creations, a giver of what he calls 'the more abundant life' who orders the destruction of food while millions of his fellow-countrymen are undernourished. A great preacher of free speech who threatened the political ruin of the Senator who for the sake of principle opposed his Supreme Court 'reform.' A bitter critic of bureaucracy who has created so many bureaux that Washington cannot contain them. A stern advocate...
...circus would the Cleveland goings-on have had if 1936 were not a Presidential year, if polls and experienced observers did not forecast a close election. Because of these facts, the coalition of discontent welded last week when Pensioneer Townsend and Share-Our-Wealther Smith agreed to back Inflationist Lemke, go on a four-ring barnstorming tour with him and Inflationist Coughlin, aroused serious political speculation. Hardly the simplest-minded members of the Lemke-Coughlin-Smith-Townsend following could expect their votes to put North Dakota's Lemke in the White House. What they might do. what their...
...last moving to unite their private armies, declare war on both old Parties. In Chicago, Rev. Gerald L. K. ("Share-the-Wealth") Smith announced on behalf of himself and his new ally, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend, that they had reached "a loose working agreement" with the inflationist leaders, Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin and North Dakota's Representative William Lemke. To his new Manhattan headquarters went Father Coughlin to prepare for a radioration at week's end on "Why I Can Support Neither the New Deal nor the Old Deal." Questioned about a third...
Naturally Commander James E. Van Zandt of the VFW had as his field generals in the Senate not only the loudest inflationist, Elmer Thomas, but the loudest demagog, Huey Long. Legion Commander Frank N. Belgrano Jr. had Post-Commander, now Senator, Bennett Champ Clark as his floor leader. The two forces were opposed to each other because of rivalry, and because the Legionaire-Senator Clark, who is no end proud of his parliamentary astuteness, knew well enough that there were four to six pro-Bonus Senators, willing to vote for the "sound" Vinson Bill who would not vote...
...business methods, talked State Socialism but called it capitalistic reform. He took to the lecture stand, told the Matinee Musical Club of Philadelphia that "man is his brother's keeper and the old order of greed must pass." He helped found the Sound Money League, allied himself with Inflationist-Priest Charles E. Coughlin. Of his wife, whose safe-deposit boxes are stuffed with public utility stocks, he said: "Doris would agree to public ownership, but not to achieving it through confiscation...