Word: rooseveltism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican National Committee definitely ticketed young Mr. Dewey for the No. 2 spot in the 1940 G. O. P. race. General (and damning) opinion was: Tom Dewey has no chance for the Presidency, but will make the best Vice Presidential nominee either party has had since Theodore Roosevelt...
What made the Governor mad were the outspoken criticisms of New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Interior Secretary Ickes, President Roosevelt-who, without naming names, charged that Ohio's State Government was responsible for Cleveland's scandalous relief situation (TIME...
Lurid or political, at week's end the relief situation in Ohio was still critical. Hundreds of tons of foodstuffs from Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. were poured into the State. President Roosevelt approved the expenditure of $1,248,991 for three new WPA projects. Cleveland saw some new money for relief in sight as its City Council approved the sale of $1,200,000 worth of bonds against delinquent taxes. But these were only stopgaps...
Making plans for a four-generation family Christmas party, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt resurrected her Yule Rule No. 1: no warlike toys on the family tree. Said she, gloomily: "From the looks of things, I am afraid refraining from warlike toys doesn't do much good...
...good! With only Judy Carland and Charles Winninger to help him drag a so-so cast through the script, he has taken the show on his own Napoleonic shoulders and carried it through to Garcia. Along with being able to sing tap-dance play the piano, imitate Roosevelt, and other odd jobs, it might even he said that Rooney can act. His introduction to the problem of smoking a cigar is one of the funniest scenes put on Celluloid in a long time. He is even allowed to go through a tolerable love scene now that the Hays office...