Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Orville Poland, speaking on the Dies Committee, said that if the American Student Union is investigated the inquiry will most certainly reach Harvard. "The Dies Committee's real business is to smear the Roosevelt administration, and is acting as the stooge of the National Manufacturers Association and the Chambers of Commerce," he continued...
WASHINGTON--Conservative Democrats and Republicans in Congress to-night prepared for a determined campaign at the coming session to slice millions from the government spending program for the next fiscal year, now being whipped into shape by President Roosevelt and his financial experts...
...Courier-Journal Colonel Watterson said flatly that Theodore was "as mad as a March hare," suggested that his family ought to lock him up before he did more harm. Another time he called Roosevelt "as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." When World War I began, Marse Henry wrote: "We must not act either in haste or passion." But it was his habit to end his editorials with the cry: "To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs...
Judge Bingham, nominal editor of the Courier-Journal for ten years, doubled its circulation, upheld the national reputation that Colonel Watterson had given it. But he left the editorial page to Harrison Robertson, and in 1929 resigned the title to him. (Judge Bingham became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Great Britain, died in office two years ago.) Editor Robertson never worked for any other paper. He had been 60 years a member of the Courier-Journal staff when he died last fortnight...
Once a conservative who believed that democracy had been a dismal failure, Editor Agar swung leftward with Roosevelt. His recent books are pious, eloquent, Democratic; his syndicated column, Time and Tide, has a resolutely New Deal aura. He takes his seat in Marse Henry's vacant office next January, at the close of a current lecture tour...