Word: rooseveltian
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...Politics has laid a heavy hand of wrath upon the benevolent Society of St. Tammany. Disinherited by the national democratic organization, harried by a Rooseveltian governor in Albany, and finally, in the ultimate cataclysm, kicked out of the city feed troughs, the society took to sack-cloth and ashes, fixed a Day of Atonement, and picked a Scape-goat...
With Old George in hospital his Leadership of the Labor Party passed automatically to fiery, Radical Sir Stafford Cripps who advocates a Rooseveltian dictatorship in Great Britain to be brought about by passing an "Emergency Powers Bill" (TIME, Nov. 13). With Labor in a hopeless Parliamentary minority, Sir Stafford stands no chance of becoming Britain's Roosevelt, short of a general election which was nowhere in sight last week...
...through the House of Commons a sweeping "Emergency Powers Bill." If, as he expects, the House of Lords should balk at this, his Majesty must then be "ad- vised" (i. e. compelled) to create enough new peers to pass the bill and give Labor's premier Rooseveltian powers. Knowing Britain's upper classes for what they are-hard and sturdy nuts to crack-Sir Stafford fears class war over...
...alleviate in some degree the bleakness of the approaching winter comes the new Rooseveltian relief plan, which offers to a critical public a startling solution of the problem of unemployment, but does appear to be a very sensible measure nevertheless. It is a cause for cheering and gesticulation not only on account of its frank admission of the wholesale collapse of state and private charity and the huge necessity of Federal aid, but also because it means another badly-needed demand on the capital-goods industries which will supply the materials and instruments for the public works. Despite...
...cast his vote for handsome, upright young Joe McKee. Adding Republican momentum to its original Democratic impetus, McKee's cueball had already clicked off O'Brien's white-ball, was rolling toward LaGuardia's redball. It looked as though a Hooverite kiss would make a Rooseveltian billiard. Wall street was betting 2-to-1 it would...