Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Party rebellion is no new thing in U. S. history. (The Republican Party found its left wing rebellious in the Coolidge-Hoover era.) Rebellion by the substantial leaders of a party against their leader-in-chief is rarer. And the rebellion which John Nance Garner now leads is rarer still in that it is, save in small things, almost intangible-less a rebellion than a resistance. It is nonetheless the biggest political struggle now going on in Washington...
...home, go fishing. Joe Robinson was fighting Mr. Roosevelt's battle as well as he could. But the effort killed Joe Robinson. After the funeral at Little Rock, Ark., John Garner went straight to Franklin Roosevelt, plainly told him his Court plan was beaten, but he still was loyal enough to engineer a compromise that saved some face...
...Wallace lined up beside the President against Mr. Farley, Mr. Hull and the Vice President. The War and Navy Secretaries mostly keep out of it, the new Attorney General sticks to his legal knitting. Harry Hopkins is still a loyal New Dealer but in his new job has discovered a new zeal for Recovery. And loyal, long-suffering Henry Morgenthau is at last showing his conservative colors...
...want to fight with the President-not if he can help it. For the Party's sake he wants no open rupture. And as an old deerhunter he knows that you don't cut a buck's throat until it quits thrashing. Franklin Roosevelt is still much alive and kicking...
Last week urbane Apostle Aranha, an ex-cowboy who still carries lead in his shoulder from the 1930 Presidential campaign, completed a profitable month's stay in the U. S. Under the auspices of his friend Cordell Hull he had not only talked business but done business with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, and Export-Import Bank President Pierson. Before cameramen these gentlemen cordially sealed the deal which they had made in a month's negotiations. Its terms...