Word: rooseveltians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bold? Nervous? This broadside began a week of sensational warfare between the White House and the Senate. Some observers saw President Hoover turning over a new and bolder political leaf, adopting Rooseveltian tactics to combat congressional vagaries. Others pictured him as a nervous, sensitive man who had been swamped by his own anger at the loss of support. Certain it was that his fingers played a new tattoo of worry on the arms of his chair, that his nerves were stretched by the failure of the country to rally sooner from its slump, by Republican reverses in the election...
Theodore Roosevelt or his like in the White House might well have been impelled long since, by sheer curiosity, to have a look at such a national phenomenon as Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone has been allowed to become. It would have been distinctly Rooseveltian to command Capone's presence in Washington on any old pretext and settle his hash out of hand...
Gifford Pinchot, Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania, last week lost a large chunk of political support but none of his oldtime Rooseveltian capacity for denunciation. Charles B. Hall and Samuel Salus, potent members of the Philadelphia G. O. P. machine under Boss William Scott Vare, repudiated him to support John M. Hemphill, the Democratic Nominee. Mr. Pinchot exploded: "They're gangsters first and Republicans as a matter of convenience afterwards. . . . Hall . . . stands for everything decent voters despise and hate. His support is always a liability...
...Janeiro* hospitable President Washington Luis of Brazil moved out of his official residence, Guanabara Palace, and in for 60 hours moved Mr. & Mrs. Hoover. Last week U. S. servants at the Meyer mansion were informed that they must not ascend to the second floor, where the President-elect, dynamic, Rooseveltian, big-boned, occupied Mrs. Meyer's pink-draped bedroom. The Prestes' own Brazilian "man" served his master's frugal breakfasts ? with emphasis on large tumblers of iced orange juice, heaping plates of grapes, and, of course, rolls with Brazilian coffee...
...Solicitor General of the U. S., at 44 Governor of the Philippines; at 47 Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard '80, who loved "Will" Taft well enough to let him snooze in the strenuous Rooseveltian presence, took him into his cabinet as Secretary of War, groomed him for the Presidency...