Word: rooseveltians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice-Presidential campaign of 1920. She has never left the Roosevelts since. She handles all the President's personal affairs, knows his literary style so well that he can glance at a letter, direct "Say yes" or "Say no" and the answer she writes cannot be told from a Rooseveltian original...
With easy, informal Rooseveltian technique, Mr. Davis dropped his naval depth bomb at a luncheon tendered him by U. S. correspondents. The situation was simple enough. In Tokyo, as everyone knew, the Son of Heaven had pored through his owlish tortoise-shell glasses over the draft text of Japan's denunciation of the Washington Naval Treaty last week and, finding this denunciation good, had sent it to the Privy Council. Only a miracle could stop Japan from scrapping the 5-5-3 ratio and starting a naval race. No miracle man, Ambassador Davis contented himself with a speech well calculated...
...crippled children chosen by lot. For the fifth year Mrs. Eliza Manry, 97, of Lamar County, Ga., supplied a 40-lb. gobbler which required three men to bring it in from the kitchen. Afterwards a tenor rendered "Home on the Range" and on the second chorus the mellow Rooseveltian baritone was heard joining in with the rest of the happy group. Then Trustee Roosevelt made a little speech...
Rolling up even bigger margins than the students, the Faculty part of the CRIMSON poll yesterday declared Gaspar G. Bacon '08 a 20-1 favorite over Mayor Curley and condemned the Rooseveltian policies 3-1. Ballots from nearly 200 professors were returned to the CRIMSON in the instructors' division of the straw vote...
...years he has run for Congressman in New Jersey, for Congressman, Senator and Governor in California. He has a face that looks like Henry Ford gone slightly fey, a pleasing voice, a wide smile and immense persuasiveness on the rostrum. He hitched EPIC to the New Deal, implied Rooseveltian approval. Too late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo rushed Wartime Propagandist George Creel into the breach. At the primary last August ex-Socialist Sinclair trounced Democrat Creel by nearly 150,000 votes, received a majority over all eight of his opponents, polled the largest Democratic primary vote of any candidate in California...