Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune's make-up editor obeyed the President's injunction, but to most of the U. S. press, Franklin Roosevelt's remarks about the U. S. seemed considerably more pertinent than David's about a citizen of Zion. They were a review of his first five years in office, a highly metaphorical explanation of administrative policies in terms of "the old ship of State." Since March 4, 1933, the President said, enormous gains had been made toward some of his goals, more gradual gains toward others. The goals in any case...
...Bernie Baruch is a Democrat. He was Woodrow Wilson's chairman of the omnipotent War Industries Board, financed a host of Senatorial campaigns during the lean Republican years, was the heaviest single contributor to the Democratic cause in 1932. Yet Mr. Baruch has been no closer to Roosevelt II than to Hoover, Coolidge and Harding, to all of whom he furnished disinterested personal counsel and advice. But inevitably his words were taken as those of a Democrat when last week he said such things as these...
...Heard Pennsylvania's Republican Robert Fleming Rich shout during the debate preceding passage of the $125,086,690 Interior Department Appropriation Bill: "That man [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] does not know what he is doing . . . never worked a day in his life . . . could not run any kind of business...
...kept out of Congress, referred to the Federal Trade Commission, but FTC members gave him scant encouragement. To the Senate's anti-Administration bloc, even the remotest prospect of uncovering a Roosevelt Teapot Dome was so exciting that Utah's Democratic King and New Hampshire's Republican Bridges hastened to introduce a resolution calling for a Senate committee investigation of TVA on 23 "charges." Among the 23: wasting public funds, suppression of audits, interference in neighboring labor disputes, coercion of rural customers, "creating deceptive or untrue propaganda...
...S.E.C. it is a bolster to their insistence upon strict regulation of national securities and exchange members and a great aid to their program for the complete reorganization of exchanges. To the New Dealers in Washington and Wall Street it must signify a definite victory over both the Republican dichards and bad boys of the financial world...