Word: rooseveltisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazis restored to the U. S. many of the orders for fuels, electrical appliances, chemicals, drugs, newsprint which had been coming from Europe. The War Ministry discussed discharging the German military mission which had been instructing land forces. And Argentina heartily endorsed a proposal originated by El Hombre Roosevelt but officially put forward by Panama: that the signatories of the Lima Declaration meet at Panama City late this month to work together on neutrality measures...
...asked them what kind of jobs they had, how much they made, what they thought of their bosses, whether they were happily married, whether they spanked their children, what they ate, where they bought their clothes, what they read, what movies they liked, what they thought of President Roosevelt, whether they wrote letters to their Congressmen, hundreds of other questions...
...Manhattan, U. S. Minister to Portugal Herbert Claiborne Pell, old friend & college mate of President Roosevelt, sententious, well-stuffed socialite who delights in shocking his stumer friends, embarked for Portugal to resume his diplomatic duties. Asked if Portugal would become a hot spot, he replied: "I wouldn't be going back if I thought so. I'm no hero...
...threat of a runaway commodity price inflation. An emergency had been proclaimed and there was small doubt that Franklin Roosevelt was prepared, if necessary, to fix prices and limit profits. What form this "might take was not yet settled. In the view of many a New Dealer most industry has been making passable profits on a mediocre volume of business (Federal Reserve Production Index was between 95 and 100); a larger volume should rather reduce than raise prices, for unit costs will fall. Anticipating Administration pressure if not a Presidential outburst against profiteering, copper and lead producers confined themselves...
Meanwhile, speculation and the illusion of prosperity may itself encourage an increase of consumption, giving business a genuine stimulus. And although Congress last summer rejected the idea of Capital Goods spending, the crisis had put into Franklin Roosevelt's hands the means of carrying it out in the name of preparedness. Gone was the Administration's peacetime notion of self-liquidating projects. Peace itself had been liquidated. Last week even Henry Morgenthau, who opposed public works spending, rehired Chicago's learned Jacob Viner, Princeton's Winfield William Riefler, No. 1 & 2 Treasury anti-spending brain trusters...