Word: rooseveltians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...loophole, in case the Empire countries should eventually desire to embark on Rooseveltian finance, Chancellor Chamberlain, who continued to keep sterling steady against the French franc and other European gold standard currencies last week, inserted in the declaration that "the United Kingdom Government has no commitments to other countries regarding the future management of sterling and retains complete freedom of action in this respect...
Vital to the coal business, the decision was significant for all business because it was one of the Supreme Court's most liberal interpretations of the anti-trust laws. The emphasis it placed on the social purposes of a business combination coincided with a prime Rooseveltian motto: "It's not what you do, but how you do it." If Franklin should follow Theodore in holding that there are "good" trusts and "bad'' trusts, the executive arm of the Government would be in complete agreement with the Judicial arm. Dicta of the Chief Justice...