Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The tanned, rugged-looking President who returned to the U. S. last week at Pensacola and proceeded at once to his "second home" at Warm Springs, Ga., was watched intently by the correspondents whose daily duty it is to report his words and deeds. Hanging in the air like a...
Purge? Thus the Roosevelt primary score for the week showed, net, a few points to the good. But no great progress had been made by the Roosevelt Purge, which when Franklin Roosevelt started on his political & fishing trip four weeks ago was supposed to be his big plan for the...
(Everywhere political wiseacres interpreted Franklin Roosevelt's failure to crack down on "naughty" Senators Adams and McCarran-right after the triumph of "naughty" Senator Van Nuys in Indiana [see p. 11]-as "the end of the Roosevelt Party Purge.")
After Senator Van Nuys opposed President Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan last year, he was singled out as Victim No. 1 for the great purge of the Democratic Party. Franklin Roosevelt said nothing publicly, but Mr. McNutt's obedient satellite, Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana, announced it...
This about-face resulted from no change in New Deal feeling. It was ordered in spite of Franklin Roosevelt by potent Paul McNutt. After a series of 10,000-mile telephone calls, High Commissioner McNutt decided that his own ambitions were more important than the President's purge. Defeat...