Word: rooseveltisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goods. To the White House last week went the leaders of the Congress to deliver the goods-the Neutrality Act that Franklin Roosevelt wanted-and see him scrawl his bold signature...
Forty-four days before he signed the joint resolution lifting the arms embargo, President Roosevelt had stood before Congress and gravely begun: "I have asked the Congress to reassemble . . . in order that it may consider and act on the amendment of certain legislation which, in my best judgment, so alters the historic foreign policy of the United States that it impairs the peaceful relations of the United States with foreign nations." Last week the legislation was amended. And although Washington correspondents speculated on the political consequences, on the effects on business, shipping and foreign policy, the plainest reaction was calm...
Calm to the point of boredom was the ceremony of the signing. It was 12:04 p.m. when President Roosevelt, grasping an inexpensive black & tan fountain pen, affixed his signature to the joint resolution. Next minute, using another pen just like it, he signed proclamations defining combat areas (see p. 16), and banning belligerent submarines from U. S. ports. To Senator Key Pittman went one pen. To Representative Sol Bloom went another. A third-an expensive one that memento-loving Sol Bloom had bought just for the ceremony-the President decided to keep for himself. Off-stage a newsman...
...Next day, with no ceremony at all, Commander-in-Chief Franklin Roosevelt: 1) estimated the cost of his recently ordered emergency additions to the Army, Navy, Marine corps (and FBI) at $275,000,000; 2) let it be announced that the Navy wants $1,300,000,000 in appropriations, to pay for eight cruisers, 52 destroyers, three aircraft carriers, 32 submarines -all over & above the huge naval construction program now under...
...been excellent advice that ailing Pat Harrison had phoned to the White House in mid-September-to lie low, avoid dramatic moves, cajole the South. For once more the South's balance of power had been clearly demonstrated. Lacking Southern support, Franklin Roosevelt was beaten on every Congressional front in July and August (TIME, August 14); with it he won clearly in the Senate last fortnight, in the House last week-where 95 Southern votes were cast for repeal of the arms embargo, two against...