Word: rooseveltians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends," began the easy Rooseveltian voice in countless homes, ". . . when you deposit money in a bank, the bank does not put the money into a safe deposit vault. It invests your money, puts it to work. . .. What, then, happened? There was a general rush so great that the soundest banks could not get enough currency to meet the demand. ... It was then that I issued the proclamation providing for the nationwide bank holiday. . . . The second step was the legislation promptly and patriotically passed by Congress confirming my proclamation and broadening my powers...
...shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...
...Sarasota, Fla. Son of a Columbus, Ohio, police commissioner, he gained fame as an amateur detective on local cases, joined the Secret Service as a counterfeiting investigator. But it was Detective Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building. Convicted of complicity in contempt of court for jury...
...Washington, Secretary Hurley, pleased as Punch with Rooseveltian support, declared: "This thing is getting to be a good joke but really, you know, I'm not a candidate. Besides I was for Charlie Curtis in 1924. I was for him in 1928. I'm still...
...Baron is short, thickset, determined. Keen eyes peer from behind heavy round spectacles. His broad stubby mustache, his quick big-toothed smile are more than vaguely Rooseveltian. Years ago as a Japanese diplomat Baron Shidehara knew the Rough Rider President, recalls him warmly as "my friend." Asked recently point blank, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Roosevelt?" Japan's Foreign Minister replied with crisp satisfaction, ''Yes, someone told me that in Washington on my first visit...