Word: rooseveltian
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...appeal of a war hero won more than one election in this country. The permanence of the Eisenhower popularity is, however, more significant. [Eisenhower's] popularity is rooted in the fact that he is the agent of the acceptance by Republicanism of the major policies of the Rooseveltian Revolution of the past two decades. In foreign affairs, that meant acceptance of the concept of our nation's responsibility for the health of the community of free nations. In domestic politics, the revolution meant a break with the doctrinaire laissez-faire traditions of Republicanism, and the intervention of political...
...carefully detailed, carefully delivered-but without the inspiration that the occasion called for. It was a plan for defense, and a competent one, but it was no compelling call to arms. It was deliberately a low-keyed speech-with none of the ringing phrases of a Churchillian or Rooseveltian performance...
...crowd on Hollywood's Vine Street shouted, cheered and clapped at the sight of Jimmy Roosevelt emerging from Tom Breneman's restaurant with a wide Rooseveltian grin on his face. Inside, Jimmy had just made a broadcast announcing that he would run for governor of California. His studio audience surged out behind him, still munching their free ice cream cones, and gathered around to gawk at the show. On the sidewalk a three-piece band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again, a tumbling team cavorted and square dancers twirled in the rosy glow of neon signs...
...inaugural broadcast from the stage of Carnegie Hall saw WFDR off to a razzle-dazzle start. Congratulatory messages came from India's Pandit Nehru and Chile's President Gonzalez Videla, Italy's Premier de Gasperi and France's Leon Blum. There were Verdi arias and Rooseveltian folksongs (Ballad for FDR, The Face on the Dime), and jokes by Milton Berle (see PEOPLE). Big business was represented by RCA's David Sarnoff, the Armed Forces by General Walter Bedell Smith, Government by FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock and New York City's Mayor O'Dwyer. Eleanor...
...document also endorses "the Rooseveltian concept of big three unity through the mechanism of the United Nations" as well as "rolling back prices for permanent full employment and an equitable system of production, distribution, and taxation...