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Occasion for this editorial debate was the President's unprecedented action last week in apologizing to the Government of Chile for an article in the Nov. 17 issue of TIME.-In terms that correspondents recognized as a new high in Rooseveltian criticism of the press, he opened his Tuesday press conference by saying...
...last phrase was Rooseveltian in the first degree. It might technically include Dakar, Cape Verde Islands or the Azores, although the President had told his visitors the night before that such was not the case. Looking ahead, some speculative analysts thought there might be a time when some port in Eire would also be "a strategic outpost," would also be occupied by the U.S. Navy as a U.S. base...
...audience-the Foreign Policy Association and worldwide radio listeners-gave attentive heed. For his speech was the best statement yet made, in other than Rooseveltian idiom, of the official...
Later that day, Philadelphia turned out to line the streets. The Rooseveltian teeth gleamed in a smile for all. Down Broad Street rolled the motorcade, carrying such big shots as bald-headed William Bullitt, resplendent Anthony Biddle, rugged Boss Jack Kelly. In narrow Walnut Street the parade passed under a gigantic banner which announced: "Willkie-The Hope Of Our Country...
...week had piled up evidence in State after State of a steady decline in the Democratic fortunes, a decline so profound as to give every prospect of a clear Republican victory in November. The shift toward the G. O. P. was now so marked that nothing short of a Rooseveltian miracle, it appeared to poll-parrots, could save the election for the Democrats...