Word: rooseveltians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cowboy, wears a white sombrero, and once astounded a Washington redcap by stepping off a train and shouting "Hell, boy, where's the water-hole?" When the votes were tallied, Mr. Hitchcock came in a bad third, behind a Congressman named Fred Hildebrandt, leaving Rooseveltian Mr. Berry with nothing between himself and the Senate but the November elections. His Republican opponent will be Chandler Gurney-who lost a close Senate race in 1936, campaigning over a radio station which he operates himself...
...April 1 approximately 14% of the nation's population were beneficiaries of public aid of one kind or another. These facts, included last week in a preliminary report by the Senate's Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief, headed by South Carolina's pro-Rooseveltian Senator James Francis Byrnes, would have been enough to make that document arresting. It contained considerably more. Eight weeks ago Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch told the Byrnes Committee that the chief cause of the country's current economic ills was the Administration's policies-urged modification of the levies...
...nation have been focussed on the new Supreme Court Building on Capitol Hill throughout the past twelve months. The "Nine Old Men" formed one of the last barriers of protection to the country's property-holding, minority, and were relentlessly attacked by a large block of public opinion. Rooseveltian reform was attempted and defeated...
...machines have broken down completely. Of the 20 left. Republicans are sure of only three and have no better than an even chance in most of the rest. Of the 34 Senators up for election this year, Republicans have a fair chance of electing nine, but the fight between Rooseveltian and Conservative Democrats is likely to hold the centre of the stage. Anyhow, the Democratic majority in the Senate is so overwhelming that it would take until 1940 to upset it even if the G. O. P. were given an improbable series of clean sweep elections...
...Congress nothing is at once dearer and harder to defend than patronage. Any bill putting patronage jobs under civil service would have faced a hard fight at any time and when the Senate Reorganization Bill was brought up for debate the same confident group of anti-Rooseveltian Democrats who helped defeat the Court Plan jumped jubilantly into the fight against it. First test of their strength was an amendment proposed by Massachusetts' David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor...