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...forced to the conclusion that Rooseveltian ideas are popular with the majority of voters. The anti-Roosevelt sentiment is universal among business and professional men in Los Angeles but they do not control the majority of votes...
...Republicans have made no attempt to force the administration to define its general policies as a basis on which to formulate definite alternative issues. Their opposition has been as sterile as the Sahara desert. Devoting all their attention to discrediting Rooseveltian ideas, they have given the public no intimation of the program they would follow if elected to office. As in 1932, so in 1936, recovery will be the fundamental issue. The Republicans must offer a platform which, while conservative, yet offers to the common people a tangible hope for better times. They must fight the vast grants of federal...
...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...