Rooseveltian

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Adj. 1. Rooseveltian - of or relating to or like or in the manner of Franklin Roosevelt

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It is pretty generally admitted that Geoffrey Chaucer, the eminent poet of the fourteenth century, though obsessed with an almost Rooseveltian passion for the new spelling, was there with the goods when it came to profundity of thought.

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Featured at the official National Park Service Centennial Celebration at Yellowstone National Park, Wiegand's Theodore Roosevelt is based on solid scholarship and delivered with Rooseveltian showmanship.

Barn dedication See Teddy Roosevelt at Garfield Farm event

The result was a broadly accepted Rooseveltian authoritarianism.

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It is noteworthy to point out that all three of the authors--Chenault, Aran, and Donohue--do mention and give credit to the effectiveness of the social work models that arose as a result of the Progressive era and the Rooseveltian politics of that time (Segal 2010).

Adjustment Challenges: Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1938-1945. The Writings of Patria Aran Gosnell, Lawrence Chenault, and Frances M. Donohue

If you understand this you can help them."The surprising thing is that a person who fears success can actually give the impression of making a Rooseveltian effort and get away with it.

GACHUHI: Winning is everything in sports, but not for every athlete

(63) I trace this evolution of conservative legal thought, which I call "Rooseveltian Means to Reaganite Ends," in my contribution to a recent book on the "imperial presidency." Adam J.

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Hoover himself evolved after 1930, especially where failed efforts at "voluntary" or "cooperative" action forced him into more radical, Rooseveltian approaches.

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Lilla argues that for much of the twentieth century, Rooseveltian liberalism was a unifying and positive force in American politics and culture.

Identity crisis: liberalism needs a broader collective vision to break free of its captivity to the political interests of narrow groups

In Connell's view, Rooseveltian liberalism "saw government as the foundation for pursuing the collective good." (21) This philosophy produced a widely shared affluence and upwardly mobile working class heading into the 1940s.

From such great heights

The Keep Commission, 1905-1909: A Rooseveltian effort for administrative reform.

COST ACCOUNTING AT THE SERVICE LEVEL: AN ANALYIS OF TRANSACTION COST INFLUNCES ON INDIRECT COST MEASURMENT IN THE COST ACCOUNTING PLANS OF LARGE US CITIES

But where the New Deal went full throttle on innovation, President Barack Obama's Rooseveltian instincts were curbed by 21st-century economic realities, obsession with deficits, and Republican intransigence.

Infrastructure: can we finally think big? The defining challenge of the next president's infrastructure agenda will be persuading Congress to come along for the ride