Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs, Ga. a reporter asked Franklin Roosevelt whether the report of his three-man railroad committee was on the way. The President asked whether he was supposed to be a clairvoyant. Another questioner asked whether he was pleased by Southern reaction to his Gainesville speech. To this the President, who likes to call Georgia his adopted State, made a reply that only an adopted Georgian would have given: that the only Southerner with whom he had talked was Irvin McDuffie, his Negro valet...
...came next. The President ascribed part of the South's economic difficulties to old-fashioned feudalism, added that: "When you come down to it, there is little difference between the feudal system and the fascist system. If you believe in the one you lean to the other." Reaction to the President's curt speech by a tobacco-chewing crowd which had expected a few congratulatory truisms was one of silent, hurt amazement. Next day, it was echoed by the Southern press, by which time the President was in a fairly snappish mood himself...
...Reorganization-next to last year's battle over the plan to enlarge the Supreme Court, noisiest of the Roosevelt Administration-was its timing. When the President launched his Reorganization Plan 15 months ago, it was far more drastic than the bill the Senate voted for last week. Nationwide reaction was total apathy. When the Reorganization Plan emerged on the Senate floor a month ago, instantaneous reaction of Congress and a large section of the U. S. press and public was a horrified suspicion that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to make himself a dictator. Reason for this superficially bewildering paradox...
Hercules has $131,000,000 worth of insurance in force. In Chicago, however, the first financial reaction to the sale was not as an insurance deal but as a banking deal. For La Salle Street was thinking of the 15,000 shares of Continental Bank stock in the Hercules treasury. And Mr. Giannini officially retreated behind the Great Divide when Transamerica sold Manhattan's old Bank of America to National City in 1931. By that deal Transamerica became National City's biggest stockholder, and in 1933 A. P. and his friend John Francis Neylan went on the National...
...against "dictatorship" which is being raised over the measure in certain quarters, the author of "The Need for Constitutional Reform" explained as essentially an expression of an anti-Roosevelt reaction, not of real animosity to the Bill...