Word: rooseveltians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House guest of the week was Relief Administrator Hopkins, still working on the Rooseveltian promise to end the dole, give 3,500,000 men employment...
...other respects, too, the new Premier's policy was un-Rooseveltian, but his enemies seemed to think the deadliest argument they could raise against him among thinking Belgians was to harp on the Professor's alleged "admiration" for the U. S. President...
...guidance and for more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth." To most Chicago delegates those words were just mouthfilling rhetoric, a noble sentiment to be approved but not literally practiced. But when Huey Long heard them, they sounded like an inspiration. He filed that effective Rooseveltian appeal away in his memory. Today he is using it for all it is worth...
When the Supreme Court invalidated Section 9c of NIRA last fortnight, it was dourly predicted that the oil industry would swiftly revert to pre-Rooseveltian chaos, that a flood of East Texas "hot oil" would sweep the price of crude down from...
Pricked up interest as oldster David Lloyd George announced that he means to stump the entire British Isles with an avowedly Rooseveltian campaign for a British New Deal based on nationalization of the Bank of England, economic planning and high-pressure spending on public works. Cried he: "I think President Roosevelt has given the world a very wise lead. The American New Deal has shown how essential it is to reconstruct completely to defeat depression in every phase of economic life." Ridiculing His Majesty's Government's intention to spend 2,000,000 pounds rehabilitating certain depressed areas (TIME...