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Rooseveltian, a.|ˈrəʊz(ə)vɛltɪən, ˈruː-|
[f. the family name Roosevelt + -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Theodore Roosevelt (see prec.), or Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945), President of the U.S. 1933–45, or the Roosevelt family in general. Hence ˈRooseveltism.
1908Sci. Amer. 25 Jan. 59/3 In this advanced twentieth century we had fondly hoped that the ‘nature faker’ at least was a product of the Rooseveltian age of literature. 1909Weekly Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 24 Feb. 8/1 Quarantine lifts Mar. 4... Get rid of Rooseveltism. 1915Fatherland (N.Y.) 20 Dec. 346 We do not believe that the German Americans will have to chose between the devil of Rooseveltism and the deep sea of Wilson. 1923A. Huxley On Margin 164 In true Rooseveltian style, he admired energy for its own sake. 1940Economist 16 Nov. 601/2 He can make the official policy of the United States Government more completely Rooseveltian than it has been. 1948Chicago Tribune 1 Feb. i. 37/3 It is a typical example of Rooseveltian democracy where charity is invited where it is not needed. 1953News (Lynchburg, Va.) 6 May 6/1 That is not Rooseveltism. It is not New Dealism... It is good old-time Jeffersonian democracy. 1953R. Niebuhr Christian Realism & Polit. Probl. (1954) v. 59 The status quo, until the Rooseveltian era, permitted a degree of non-interference by the state..which must make America a paradise for all true devotees of laissez-faire. 1965Economist 16 Jan. 221/2 The profile..bears a distinctly Rooseveltian chin. 1974Listener 31 Jan. 148/1, I recall being the only child in my class who did not come from the Rooseveltian atmosphere of the homes of the Thirties. 1977National Observer (U.S.) 22 Jan. 17/1 And Eleanor was an accomplished smiler in her own right, adding weight to the theory that smiling was a major Rooseveltian impulse. 1979N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 May 30/4 Schaller thus finds in early 1941, long before Pearl Harbor, the origin of the Rooseveltian program which wound up five years later in General Marshall's unavailing postwar mediation. |