Word: rooseveltisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...session-end of the last Congress, leaders in both parties pledged to stay in Washington to counsel with the President. To all but one Mr. Roosevelt said in effect: Go on home if you want. Airplanes are always handy. But to Charles Linza McNary of Salem, Ore., Republican leader in the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt said: Stay here. Since then wise, weary Charlie McNary has constantly counseled with the President, breakfasts at the White House sometimes thrice a week, always entering from the Treasury side to dodge reporters. To the President Charles McNary has given many pieces of his mind...
...President has many times announced a slight turn to the right (breathing spell, etc.), has always turned again to the left. Now, say the Washington wiseacres, he means really to do a right turn-proves it daily with deeds instead of words. Their evidence: Constantly Mr. Roosevelt appeases the Democratic conservatives, consistently he calls to heel the business-baiting Janizariat. To keep party harmony, he plans no reform legislation at Session III of the 76th Congress, will actively support none. He has dumped taxes in the Congressional lap; almost daily pinches budget appropriations for New Deal agencies, slashes down works...
...privately from ths White House last week went this warning to Mr. Garner's hopeful wrecking-crew: Franklin Roosevelt will either make the next President or be the next President...
...Decided flatly (but privately) not to recall from Russia U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, but left the matter on a 24-hour basis. Franklin Roosevelt firmly believes that in his foreign policy he has made but one bad blunder: withdrawal one year ago of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson. Mr. Roosevelt regards Ambassadors as reporters, doesn't like the second-hand reports now coming out of Berlin to the U. S. via London and Paris. The Kremlin, he well knows, would not care a fingersnap if Mr. Steinhardt were recalled, and then...
Washington last week still waited to see whether Franklin Roosevelt will support his Secretary of State...