Word: rooseveltians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters would not feel piqued by his printing the words in Liberty which they had not been allowed to print, day before Liberty appeared he released the transcripts of 16 press conferences (out of the 337 held in the 1933-37 term), presumably picked as the best expression of Rooseveltian philosophy. Of all those released, the "horse-and-buggy" conference, held three days after NRA was invalidated by the Supreme Court, was most famous...
...Washington the Senate Judiciary Committee, after a month of intensive investigation of its subject, handed in a favorable report on the nomination of Mr. Jackson to the post of U. S. Solicitor General. Not in the least perturbed by the committee's minority view, that the characteristically Rooseveltian opinions Mr. Jackson has expressed in recent speeches and in Committee hearings made him unfit for the job, the Senate heard Nebraska's Norris say that he wished Mr. Jackson were being nominated for even higher office, shortly confirmed...
...revive until business as a whole regains confidence. In Gypsum's case, January and February sales were 25% under last year and the company is therefore unlikely to equal the $5,400,000 it made in 1937. This made Chairman Avery very bitter. Turning lecturer in true Rooseveltian style, he too presented a price chart, but he held it upside down. Snapped he: "It's the influence of this Government business...
...boss in the person of bald, forceful Governor Henry Horner (ne Levy), a onetime Chicago probate judge who quarreled with the Kelly-Nash machine and has set up his own "reform" machine to fight it. So last month, when paunchy Bill Dieterich, who has been a loyal if uninspired Rooseveltian in the Senate, returned to repair his Illinois political fences, he needed at least one machine to help...
...address lacked the fire of his historic denunciation of "entrenched greed" in 1936, the amiability of his complacent curtain-raiser to the Supreme Court fight a year ago. Its 4,000 words had, instead, a special quality of earnest persuasiveness combined with that vigorous self assurance which is characteristically Rooseveltian. His major points...