Word: rooseveltian
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...Pepper protest further served notice on the President that henceforth any Rooseveltian swings to the right would be fought loudly and bitterly by men who are normally his most loyal wish-followers in Congress. These include Pennsylvania's noisy Joe Guffey and Montana's wealthy, leftist James E. Murray. They also count on support from Utah's Elbert D. Thomas and Alabama's Lister Hill, as well as two freshman Senators-Warren Magnuson of Washington and Brien McMahon of Connecticut. Somewhere in the background was the ambitious C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Even further back...
...newsmen, recognizing an old Rooseveltian device, let the matter drop. Once again, the President had used the press as a whipping boy; once again he had thrown the ball to a new Governmental agency after three others had quarreled. To bottle up further leaks, the President ordered Secretaries Morgenthau and Stimson not to talk, and both called off scheduled press conferences...
...Dewey made clear last week that he considers foreign policy a debatable campaign issue. For the first time he gave a detailed statement of his own ideas. They proved to be more Wilsonian than Rooseveltian. And he used the occasion to turn a klieg light on the man who might be Secretary of State if Dewey became President: Manhattan Lawyer John Foster Dulles...
...Teddy Roosevelt. The Alger element marked the rise of a paper boy to waiting on tables at Alma College, to $150,000-a-year general manager of 27 Hearst newspapers in 1928, and then to publisher-owner of the huge (412,148 circ.) Chicago Daily News in 1931. The Rooseveltian half of his life began in the Spanish-American War, when young Knox got a bullet hole through his hat and a "Bully!" from Teddy for his service in the Rough Riders...
...Publisher Van W. Stewart of the Ochil-tre^ County Herald (circ. 2,045), longtime ardent Rooseveltian, editorially announced that he would vote against 16 years of F.D.R. (Sole exception: Dewey as the G.O.P. candidate...