Word: rooseveltian
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...machines have broken down completely. Of the 20 left. Republicans are sure of only three and have no better than an even chance in most of the rest. Of the 34 Senators up for election this year, Republicans have a fair chance of electing nine, but the fight between Rooseveltian and Conservative Democrats is likely to hold the centre of the stage. Anyhow, the Democratic majority in the Senate is so overwhelming that it would take until 1940 to upset it even if the G. O. P. were given an improbable series of clean sweep elections...
...Congress nothing is at once dearer and harder to defend than patronage. Any bill putting patronage jobs under civil service would have faced a hard fight at any time and when the Senate Reorganization Bill was brought up for debate the same confident group of anti-Rooseveltian Democrats who helped defeat the Court Plan jumped jubilantly into the fight against it. First test of their strength was an amendment proposed by Massachusetts' David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor...
...reporters would not feel piqued by his printing the words in Liberty which they had not been allowed to print, day before Liberty appeared he released the transcripts of 16 press conferences (out of the 337 held in the 1933-37 term), presumably picked as the best expression of Rooseveltian philosophy. Of all those released, the "horse-and-buggy" conference, held three days after NRA was invalidated by the Supreme Court, was most famous...
...Washington the Senate Judiciary Committee, after a month of intensive investigation of its subject, handed in a favorable report on the nomination of Mr. Jackson to the post of U. S. Solicitor General. Not in the least perturbed by the committee's minority view, that the characteristically Rooseveltian opinions Mr. Jackson has expressed in recent speeches and in Committee hearings made him unfit for the job, the Senate heard Nebraska's Norris say that he wished Mr. Jackson were being nominated for even higher office, shortly confirmed...
...revive until business as a whole regains confidence. In Gypsum's case, January and February sales were 25% under last year and the company is therefore unlikely to equal the $5,400,000 it made in 1937. This made Chairman Avery very bitter. Turning lecturer in true Rooseveltian style, he too presented a price chart, but he held it upside down. Snapped he: "It's the influence of this Government business...