Word: rooseveltisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vandenberg, Grandson "Duke" Knight, the Senator, Mrs. Edward Pfeiffer (daughters), Son Arthur Jr. *This mail alone shifted early odds, favoring a quick Presidential victory, to even-Stephen. There was some money available at 1-to-2 Franklin Roosevelt would lose this fight...
Well he knew that he had many friends in & out of the Senate, yet no intimate friend, was even now as lonely as Franklin Roosevelt since the death of crabby, brilliant, gnomish Louis McHenry Howe. Coldly he could figure that this was a fight he must win, for not simply the Presidency but his Senate seat was at stake. Many a Michigan boss would like to see a more employable man in Washington...
There, in his study of politics, he marked well one priceless maxim: always ask for more than you can get, then compromise for half. Thus he could appreciate last week Franklin Roosevelt's stratagem in asking absolute repeal of the Neutrality law and a return to the vague vagaries of international law, in order that a compromise on cash-and-carry would seem to anti-repeal forces like a victory...
...pale, grave, calm President (see p. 11), possible attacks on that aggressive defense went through his mind. By week's end one thing was clear about the isolationist strategy: the old bogey of the House of Morgan was to be hung like an albatross around Franklin Roosevelt's neck...
...committee in 1934-35-Nye, Bone, Clark, Vandenberg, Pope, George, Barbour-implicitly believe that World War I was engineered by and run for the benefit of J. P. Morgan & Co., and the munitions-makers whom they dubbed "merchants of death." And last week, on an unguarded flank of the Roosevelt Administration, whose big guns for six years have boomed denunciations of "princes of privilege," "entrenched greed," "wolves of Wall Street," "money-barons," etc., etc., they found a rich ammunition dump: at the head of the all-important War Resources Board, Edward Stettinius Jr. Morgan-man, head of U. S. Steel...