Word: roader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlie Taft is proud to call himself a middle-of-the-roader, a moderate, a mugwump. Thesis of You And I-And Roosevelt is that to win the 1936 campaign Republicans must appeal to other moderates who like progress but not too much of it, and that much not too fast. Those moderates, he warns, are in sympathy with most of the New Deal aims. He himself likes its tariff policies, its securities and stock exchange regulation, its bank deposit insurance, its handling of strikes and championship of Labor. He approves of public works, regulation of public utilities (including government...
...strategy on Nov. 3. Yet smart newshawks who compared the tone of Nominee Landon's acceptance speech last week with the tone of You And I-And Roosevelt did not underrate the position of Charlie Taft in the Topeka setup. Officially this Ohio middle-of-the-roader is supposed to advise the nominee and his campaign strategists only on relief and social security. But if Alf Landon moves into Charlie Taft's boyhood home in Washington next January, he will be indebted to that young counsellor of moderation for a lot more than an ordinary researcher...
...recently in Topeka. "All the evil forces of corruption which are attracted by the prospect of political spoils have left the Republican fold and attached themselves to the opposition. Let them go! As a party we have been deloused. . . . Get America back on the payroll." A middle-of-the-roader, with geography on his side, Candidate Knox to-day waits & watches his chance to disclose himself and his ambitions...
...Peek's place, Chester C. Davis took charge of AAA. "Chet" Davis is not a man of Mr. Peek's sort, not a man of Mr. Frank's. Economically he stood somewhat closer to Jerome Frank, but he was a middle-of-the-roader in economics and in disposition. In AAA's legal department Frank and his satellites, including Francis Shea, Lee Pressman, Victor Rotnem, flashed their rapiers, determined to slice the profits off processors and middlemen and present them to the farmers. In AAA's Information Division, Consumers' Counsel Frederick C. Howe...
Last week, as in all weeks round Christmas time, few U. S. books were published. Far & away the best of those that were is Author Robert Melvin Coates' Yesterday's Burdens. Too far to the left for many a middle-of-the-roader, this novel is squarely in the centre of the modern experimental path-a path broad enough to accommodate Ulysses and the books of John Dos Passes, but on which such backtracking behemoths as Anthony Adverse never set hoof. Fated to be overlooked or judged "queer" by the general reader, Yesterday's Burdens will excite...