Word: lukewarm
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...trouble was not that Nominee Sinclair opposed the New Deal or was lukewarm to the Party, but that he had wrapped his long radical arms around the Roosevelt Administration in an embrace of deep political affection. The novelist who had never reached first base running on the Socialist ticket exclaimed: "Today's nomination is a victory not for me but for the people of California . . . and for the New Deal. We have been nominated as Democrats and we intend to function as Democrats...
...White has been Governor since 1931. Last week these three potent Democrats were at odds over who should oppose standpat Republican Simeon Fess for his Senate seat. Messrs. Donahey and White were both candidates for the Democratic nomination, Governor White campaigning as champion of the New Deal, "Vic" Donahey, lukewarm on New Deal policies, rounding up votes among his old friends, Ohio's farmers. After the campaign was under way Mr. Cox and Senator Bulkley jumped in with what they called "the choice of the Administration"?Representative Charles West. Three-cornered the battle waged, the most excited primary that...
...warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm; and Eph yearned for Susannah, for pumpkin pie, for quoyhaugs. They had left, had spent a year in New Orleans, and had shipped for Boston...
Followed four hectic days of lobbying with France in a repulsing mood and Britain lukewarm to "The Governor." In a spat direct Candidate Bonnet said to Candidate Cox: "With Washington committed to devaluation we cannot have an American as monetary chairman...
...Lossiemouth. He left to heavy-jowled Deputy Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin the defense of their Government, which was suddenly attacked last week not only by the sharp-tongued Labor Peer but by a solid phalanx of Tory diehards. The Tories had three complaints: agitation against the Government's lukewarm policy in India, failure to take a half-promised sixpence off the income tax, and a demand for the removal of the heavy land tax imposed in 1931 by Philip Snowden as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Though passed, the land tax has never been enforced. Observers thought that the National...