Word: rooseveltians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States has declined to intervene in internicine affairs and has respected the political autonomy of its Caribbean neighbors. Action by the State Department in the Chaco war and in the Machado fiasco was taken only after careful consultation with the leading powers of the southern hemisphere. The Rooseveltian repudiation of the Socony-United Fruit-Chase National policies of Hoover and Coolidge has won favor throughout Hispanic America. It has paved the way for the extremely lucrative reciprocal tariff agreements with Brazil and the Argentine. The latest expression of Latin approval of American policy came in the unanimity of agreement...
Last Sunday every important foreign correspondent with Italy's Northern armies was summoned to Marshal Badoglio's advance base on the flanks of Amba Gheden a few miles beyond Makale. Hollow-eyed, worried, the Marshal motioned the correspondents to be seated, then spoke out with Rooseveltian frankness. "Not unreasonably, perhaps, you have complained of the difficulty of seeing what we of the fighting services have been doing all these past weeks. Now, gentlemen, you are to have the rare privilege of watching a battle, and it may prove to be a most important battle. From myself...
When Farleyism, Tugwellism, Huey-Longism, Radicalism, and plain lying Insincerity are added to the list of Rooseveltian activities, it is hard to understand how the New Deal can still keep the wool over the eyes of our still esteemed contemporary...
...forced to the conclusion that Rooseveltian ideas are popular with the majority of voters. The anti-Roosevelt sentiment is universal among business and professional men in Los Angeles but they do not control the majority of votes...
...Republicans have made no attempt to force the administration to define its general policies as a basis on which to formulate definite alternative issues. Their opposition has been as sterile as the Sahara desert. Devoting all their attention to discrediting Rooseveltian ideas, they have given the public no intimation of the program they would follow if elected to office. As in 1932, so in 1936, recovery will be the fundamental issue. The Republicans must offer a platform which, while conservative, yet offers to the common people a tangible hope for better times. They must fight the vast grants of federal...