Word: rooseveltians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moscow, Oct. 8--While admiring the courage and initiative of President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Josef Stalin does not believe the Rooseveltian 'New Deal" methods can result in planned economy or permanent relief of unemployment...
That set-to in Marseilles was small but significant. The political temper of France was stretched no less tight throughout the Republic. And that same night Premier Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue sat down before a microphone to give another of his Rooseveltian broadcasts. Shrewdly, his first move was to attack the Reds. Cried the Premier...
...Rooseveltian candor, Rooseveltian liberalism, Rooseveltian charm, some people thought, had insensibly softened stern Critic Borah. His favorite topic, unforgiveness of War debts, was practically shelved by the new Administration. Relief was being doled in quantities of which he approved. He championed silver and the President gave him and his fellows the Silver Purchase Act. When the Recovery Act was under debate he succeeded in inserting a provision on another of his favorite subjects?forbidding NRA codes to "permit monopolies or monopolistic practices"?and then ultimately voted against the measure. He joined Senator Nye in attacking NRA as a promoter...
...Politics has laid a heavy hand of wrath upon the benevolent Society of St. Tammany. Disinherited by the national democratic organization, harried by a Rooseveltian governor in Albany, and finally, in the ultimate cataclysm, kicked out of the city feed troughs, the society took to sack-cloth and ashes, fixed a Day of Atonement, and picked a Scape-goat...
With Old George in hospital his Leadership of the Labor Party passed automatically to fiery, Radical Sir Stafford Cripps who advocates a Rooseveltian dictatorship in Great Britain to be brought about by passing an "Emergency Powers Bill" (TIME, Nov. 13). With Labor in a hopeless Parliamentary minority, Sir Stafford stands no chance of becoming Britain's Roosevelt, short of a general election which was nowhere in sight last week...