Word: rooseveltians
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...boss in the person of bald, forceful Governor Henry Horner (ne Levy), a onetime Chicago probate judge who quarreled with the Kelly-Nash machine and has set up his own "reform" machine to fight it. So last month, when paunchy Bill Dieterich, who has been a loyal if uninspired Rooseveltian in the Senate, returned to repair his Illinois political fences, he needed at least one machine to help...
...address lacked the fire of his historic denunciation of "entrenched greed" in 1936, the amiability of his complacent curtain-raiser to the Supreme Court fight a year ago. Its 4,000 words had, instead, a special quality of earnest persuasiveness combined with that vigorous self assurance which is characteristically Rooseveltian. His major points...
...mispronunciations sound just as bad as Alfred Landon's. However, there is good authority for pronouncing "again" with a long aa" and TIME is not prepared to say whether the President or Reader Strong's radio elides the first "n" in "government." One clear case of Rooseveltian mispronunciation, TIME has called attention to: he and his son James both pronounce the "t" in "often" (TIME, March...
...crowd sang La Marseillaise (well), the Star-Spangled Banner (badly). A U. S. Catholic priest pronounced a solemn benediction. He was followed by a rabbi and a Protestant minister. A French military band played the eerie Hymn to the Dead. In his Rooseveltian voice, bald William Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France, introduced the Deputy from Meuse, who spoke no English. Wartime Aviator Harry W. Colmery, Commander of the American Legion, orated for his 4,000,000 comrades, about half of whom got to France before the War was over. Wildly applauded, General Pershing made the formal dedication...
...four years later, fate having denied him the Vice Presidency, he became the loyal follower of Franklin Roosevelt. And Robinson who was more conservative than Smith became the defender of Roosevelt who was too liberal for Smith. In fact his loyalty to the President-often tried by swift Rooseveltian shifts of front that left him out on a limb-won Joe Robinson the pity and respect of the men who fought him hardest on the Senate floor. As a soldier he had the admiration of the entire Senate, even of those who thought he was a soldier worthy...