Word: wilsonian
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...fell to a comparatively unimportant Wilsonian, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to deliver the eulogy of the Foundation's hero over two nation-wide radio hookups. It was soon clear to most of his listeners that the President had come to state his policies on Latin-American affairs rather than praise his Wartime chief. In the few passages where Wilson was touched upon, however, his former disciple was affectionate if not fervid. While assuring his audience that "we do not contemplate membership," President Roosevelt tried gallantly to put a good face on the scuttled League...
...originated (TIME, Nov. 6). Typical was Ralph Justin Fogg, Manhattan consulting engineer, longtime Lehigh engineering professor who built cantonments and shipyards during the War. Administrator Fogg got automatic sprinklers, concrete masonry, vitrified clay sewer pipes, four other authorities. Another colonel was wiry little Colonel George S. Brady, engineer and Wilsonian trade commissioner...
...Economic Conference has brought sharply into focus the issue of economic nationalism. The dramatic announcement by Norman Davis and Secretary Hull of the end of American isolation coupled with President Roosevelt's early enthusiasm for tariff reduction, seemed to betoken a return to a policy of low tariffs and Wilsonian internationalism. But if the Administration's ardor for the removal of trade barriers ever burned very strong, it has apparently cooled with a growing sentiment that the New Deal can best be achieved within a closed economic structure...
...Russia" and flayed the Bullitt report as a "tissue of lies." The net result of Diplomat Bullitt's activities was to furnish Republican Senators additional ammunition with which to de feat ratification of the peace treaty. But for speaking his mind he became a diplomatic outcast, with every Wilsonian Democrat ascribing his behavior to personal spite and sore-headedness...
...ways. The first depends upon President Roosevelt himself. He must realize that the people of the Nation are as solidly behind him as they are behind Congress, perhaps even more solidly. This should give him the courage to pursue a policy of Congressional leadership of the old Wilsonian type. It must be aggressive leadership which vigorously sets forth definite policies, and works for their enactment. The other depends upon Congress itself. That body must realize that perhaps its very existence depends upon whether it succeeds in the speedy passage of intelligent legislation. If it works with this thought uppermost...