Word: lindley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papers" is the prefatory remark to the penetrating political comments of many hot' stove league observer. If you are willing to admit that in the past year of amazing activity along so many different lines, you don't even know what you have seen in the papers, Lindley's book will be an admirable introduction, review, or reference book on the New Deal. If you want scientific comment on economic or administrative phases of the Roosevelt regime, if you are looking for primer like explanations of the fundamentals of Tugwellian economics or for predictions of future development, this book doesn...
...news it is good. It takes up the story begun by Mr. Lindley in his campaign biography of Roosevelt. A balanced readable account of the campaign moves naturally into the exciting story of the "Interregnum" and the "Crisis." Then the wave of public opinion for inflation, the London conference, the N. R. A. the "Official Family," and the inevitable "Brains Trust" get their chapters. Each is handled with a careful accuracy in detail and mild enthusiasm which shows the Rhodes Scholar Lindley inhibiting the feature writer Lindley...
...first American with any practical chance of reaching the Presidency to grasp the essentials of the distributing mechanism of capitalism." The encomiums are cautiously phrased yet the receiver is inclined to wonder if the general impression is not a little misleading. It is easy to agree with Mr. Lindley that Franklin Roosevelt had a liberal political philosophy before he met his brains trust but memories of the vacillating treatment of Tammany, the time required to make up his mind about issues like unemployment insurance, and other aspects of the Albany days make us realize that the quoted remark of Walter...
...unusual, consideration for Barnard's brainy booster is shown in Lindley's discussion of the Hull-Moley controversy. Apparently Moley tried to be tactful in London but Hull's suspicions and force of circumstances would not let him. Eventually Hull's anger and the need of keeping Southern political support forced Roosevelt to sacrifice his professor publicly. Recent signs that Moley is still in the President's private favor bear out this analysis...
...Lindley realizes vaguely but does not quite phrase one of the fundamental criticisms of the Roosevelt administration which is sharply illumined by the Hull Moley duel. Mr. Roosevelt has shown us respect for the principles of hierarchical distribution of power and immediate responsibility of higher officers. Putting the nationalist Moley under the internationalist Hull was an open invitation to trouble. In other departments, the President's desire for centralization through the personal listening posts has led to difficulty as Lindley remarks...