Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Republican Roosevelt. Unimportant file-closer in G. O. P. ranks, but still stumping loyally along for the party that offers him never even a dogcatcher's nomination, Colonel Teddy Jr. pounded podiums, roared that a Third Term for his distant relation would "destroy our national unity. . . . [The New Deal has] coddled Communists [and is] shot through with Communists or fellow travelers. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has fostered this cancerous growth. . . . He will never remove it. We must remove...
...that the 1940 campaign, unlike most U. S. political battles, reached into almost every aspect of U. S. life, became clearer as election day and the future approached with locomotive speed. In the long debate over the Third Term before the Chicago Convention, there had been no discussion of the long-term effects on the U. S. of a continuation and extension of New Deal policies. That debate was narrowed to the question: Would Franklin Roosevelt run again?* Last week The Christian Century came out for Wendell Willkie on the ground that a third term for Franklin Roosevelt involved incalculable...
...opposed to a third term for any president, because the very fact that he covets it, and that he has a fighting chance to win it, implies the presence of the precise conditions which make a third term dangerous for the country." Its main point: the 1940 election is more momentous than any since 1860 and 1864, because the voters are called upon to decide questions that vitally affect U. S. governmental forms and the U. S. economic system. At stake is the third term and the economic policies of the New Deal; to The Christian Century they are inextricably...
...attached no blame to President Roosevelt for the events and his leadership that poured enormous political power into his hands-the Roosevelt landslides, the relief measures which willy-nilly became political forces, the social reforms which were "not only legitimate but necessary" -but "if Mr. Roosevelt breaks through the third term barrier, he will break through the only inhibition which our system of government recognizes as a check against the one-party system, which spells fascism and totalitarianism." For the reforms and emergency measures of the first Roosevelt Administration The Christian Century gave all praise, but in the second...
...socialization of the U. S. "If you are of that school of thought that thinks that society would be happier and men would lead more pleasant lives if all of the economic instrumentalities of the nation were controlled by the State, then you should . . . follow the banner of the third term candidate...