Word: rooseveltian
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...President's bold seizure stopped a strike, but did not solve the unrest of the railworkers. Fifteen of the rail unions that gave in (TIME, Jan. 3) were still as angry as the three that held out. Aggressive George M. Harrison of the Railway Clerks, an ardent Rooseveltian for ten years, was not muttering about revenge at the polls. The 15 non-operating unions (with 1,100,000 members) issued a joint blast at their treatment...
What the President of the U.S. said to the President of Bolivia that evening paved the way for a Rooseveltian crack at the Coolidge era. Two days later at his press conference Mr. Roosevelt said happily that he had apologized for something that happened around...
...Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes, Catholic scholar from Columbia University, stayed on the job and had an interview with Serrano during the time the Nazis broadcast, inaccurately, that he had flown to Gibraltar. Hayes's able diplomacy and Rooseveltian chatter about U.S. post-war tourist plans were seen by some as forerunners of a more friendly attitude from Franco. But Franco has remained neutral for other sound reasons: 1) An open break with the Allies would ruin Falange propaganda and espionage work in the Western Hemisphere; 2) Spain would become a potential invasion point for the Allies; 3) Franco...
...Administration is going to have another fling at making sense of its patchwork of press and information bureaus. Plans for it were cooking last week. It was a plan of Rooseveltian caliber; and it added more alphabet to the soup...
...fanciful. The spectacle is a worldwide association of kindred states deliberately aiming at decentralization, but also at local and regional collaboration. . . . It would also provide a model for the rest of the world in the difficult days of post-war reconstruction-if and only if South Africans accept the Rooseveltian slogan of 'no color...