Roosevelt (105 page)

“My Day” (Eleanor Roosevelt column),
266

Napoleon,
22

Nash, Pat,
300
;
see also
Kelly-Nash machine

Nation, The
,
133
,
243
,
352

National Christian League for Promotion of Purity,
41

“National Defense Week” (1934), F.D.R. rejects,
253

National Emergency Council (NEC),
174
,
268-69
,
492

National Grange.
See
Grange

National Industrial Recovery Act.
See
NRA

National Labor Board,
216

National Labor Relations Act.
See
Wagner Act

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),
216
,
418
;
see also
Labor; Wagner Labor Relations Act

National Lawyers’ Guild,
352

National origin groups,
69-70
,
74
,
108
,
248
;
see also
Irish-American voters; Italo-American voters;
etc.

National Progressives of America (1938),
358
;
see also
Progressive party (Wisc.)

National Recovery Act.
See
NRA

National Recovery Administration.
See
NRA

National Youth Administration (NYA),
267
,
351

Navy, F.D.R.’s love for,
51-52
,
61
,
70

Navy Club,
86

Navy League of the United States,
51-52
,
64

Nazi-Soviet pact,
394
,
416
,
417

Nazis,
261
,
382
,
437-38
,
459-60
,
464
; ideology,
248
; F.D.R.’s views on,
385
,
477
;
see also
Hitler; Germany

NEC.
See
National Emergency Council

Negro voters,
198
,
285
,
338
,
339
,
453

Netherlands, the,
418-19
,
436
,
460
,
462

Neuberger, Richard, quoted on popular love for F.D.R.,
338-39

Neutrality: World War I,
60
ff
.; League of Nations,
68
ff
.,
249
ff
. (
see also
League of Nations); 1935-41,
228
,
255
ff
. (
see also below
);
see also
Isolationists

Neutrality Act of 1935,
255-62
,
318
,
319
,
355-57
,
360
,
390
,
395-97
,
437-42

New Deal,
46
,
117
,
139-40
,
143
,
162
ff.
,
183
,
206
,
242-43
,
507
; expansion (1935),
219-22
; achievements to 1936,
266-68
; expansion (1936 platform),
272
;
see also
Recovery program ; Labor; Social security; AAA; TVA;
etc.

“New Freedom” (Wilson),
54
,
179
;
see also
Wilson, Woodrow

New Georgia,
464

New Guinea,
464

“New Nationalism” (Theodore Roosevelt),
54
,
179

New York
Daily News
,
121
,
296
,
364
,
445

New York
Herald
,
44

New York
Herald Tribune
,
83
,
298
,
304
,
381

New York State, national political importance,
108-9

New York State Federation of Labor,
41

New York
Sun
,
121
,
245

New York
Times
,
121
,
244
,
264
,
356
,
381
,
419
,
439
,
443
,
445
,
447
; quoted on F.D.R.’s early oratory,
99

New York
World
,
121

New Yorker
,
173

New Zealand,
250

Newfoundland bases,
440

Newport (World War I scandal),
86

Nicaragua canal,
8-9

Niles, David K..
325

NLRB.
See
National Labor Relations Board

Nominating conventions.
See
Democratic party; Republican party

Non-partisan Committee for Peace Through Revision of the Neutrality Act,
396

Non-Partisan League,
75

Normandy invasion,
468

Norris, George W.,
147
,
185
,
222
,
230
,
431
; and TVA,
170
,
180
; 1936 campaign,
269
,
279
,
281
; Supreme Court fight,
297
,
298
; 1940 campaign,
436
; opposes selective service,
439

North Africa,
462

Northern Securities Co.,
24

Norton, Mary T.,
341
,
343

Norway,
64
,
418

Norwegian-American voters,
455

NRA (National Recovery Administration),
180-81
,
191-93
,
195
,
198
,
205
,
209
,
215-26
,
242-43
,
322
,
372
,
508
; Section 7a,
181
,
215-17
,
224
; Supreme Court invalidation,
231
,
236
; appropriations used for navy buildup,
253
; discontinued,
269

Nuclear fission,
397
,
469

Nye, Gerald P.,
214
,
260
,
356
,
392
,
438
; munitions investigation,
253-54

Oahu,
461

O’Connell, Cardinal,
215

O’Connor, Basil,
90
,
128

O’Connor, J. F. T.,
201

O’Connor, John J.,
285
,
341
,
345
,
364
,
379
,
431

Oglethorpe University,
133

O’Gorman, James A.,
50
,
77

Okinawa,
471

Olds, Leland,
113
,
117

Oliphant, Herman,
325

Olson, Floyd B.,
144
,
202
,
203

Olson letter (Minn. farmer),
194

O’Mahoney, Joseph C.,
297
,
301
,
317
,
328

On Our Way
(F.D.R.),
203

“One third of a nation,”
299
,
310

O’Neal, Ed,
184
,
321

Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele,
65

Ottinger, Albert,
101
,
103
,
104

Oursler, Fulton,
459

Pacific theater (World War II).
See
World War II Paideia,
15

Palmer, A. Mitchell,
72

Panama,
253

Pan-American Conference (Montevideo),
253

Panay
incident,
323

Party conventions and nominations.
See
Democratic party; Republican party

Party organization (N. Y.),
109
,
119-20

Party platforms,
171-72
;
see also
Democratic party; Republican party

Party primaries,
42
,
60
;
see also
Democratic party

Party realignment,
71
,
466

Passamaquoddy Bay project,
84

Patronage,
41
,
43
,
49
,
54-57
,
59
,
60
,
64
,
186-88
,
214
;
see also
Congress; Democratic party; Republican party

Patterson, Joseph,
296
,
364
,
445

Peabody, Endicott,
10-16
,
26
,
78
,
163
,
475
,
477
; death,
468
; quoted,
470
;
see also
Groton School

Peabody, George Foster,
270

Pearl Harbor attack,
461

Pearson, Frank A.,
154

Peek, George N.,
206
,
252
; quoted,
198

Pendergast, Thomas J.,
130
; quoted on F.D.R. personality,
94

Pendergast organization,
300
;
see also
Pendergast, Thomas J. (
above
)

Pennsylvania Railroad,
36
,
478

Pepper, Claude,
343
,
379

Pepper, George Wharton,
231

Perkins, Frances,
53
; State Industrial Commissioner,
117
; Secretary of Labor,
149
,
150
,
173
,
215-17
,
319
,
320
,
325
,
330
,
409
,
464
; on F.D.R.’s physical handicap,
103
; on Roosevelt family life,
107
; on fireside chats,
205
; and Hugh Johnson,
192
; and Martin Dies,
369
; friction with Ickes,
371
; quoted on F.D.R. as State Senator,
41

Permanent Court of International Justice,
251
;
see also
World Court

Permanent Joint Board on Defense,
435

Pershing, John J.,
439

Pétain, Henri Phillipe,
422

Pew, J. Howard,
206

Pew, Joseph N., Jr.,
199

Philippines,
15
,
148
,
390
,
462
,
468

Phillips, William,
177
,
251
,
358

“Phony war,”
408
,
415

Pinchot, Gifford,
199-200

Pinchot, Mrs. Gifford,
199

Pittman, Key,
175
,
203
,
376-77
; isolationism,
251
,
254
,
255
; Supreme Court fight,
303
; Neutrality Act revision,
390
,
392
,
396
,
398

Pius XI,
383

Platt Amendment,
253

Plunkitt, George Washington,
129
; quoted,
21
,
109

Poland,
384
,
390
,
393-94
,
397
,
470

Political leadership,
15
ff
.,
33
,
60
,
481-87

Polish American voters,
455

Polls, public opinion,
213
,
455
,
458
;
see also
Gallup poll

Populists,
22-23
,
194

Power regulation.
See
Utility regulation

Press, F.D.R. relations with,
59
,
189
,
205
,
241
,
265
,
316-17
,
346-47
,
491

Princeton University,
331

Progressive, F.D.R. as a,
42
,
47
,
54
,
70-71
,
499

Progressive League,
269

Progressive party (Calif., 1932),
201

Progressive party (“Bull Moose”),
38-42
,
56
,
57
,
62
,
71
; 1912,
44
,
47
,
199
,
270
; 1916,
62
;
see also
Roosevelt, Theodore

Progressive party (Wisc.), 1924,
95
,
301
; 1934,
201
; 1936,
278
; 1938,
358
;
see also
La Follette

Progressives,
25
,
31
,
32
,
53
ff
.,
89
;
see also above
; Wilson; Roosevelt, Theodore

Prohibition repeal,
42
,
73
,
89
,
93
,
98-104
passim
,
120
,
126
,
129
,
136
,
168

Public Works Administration (PWA),
196
,
242
,
318
,
435

Public Works Department, proposed by F.D.R.,
344

Public works programs,
181
,
192
;
see also
Public Works Administration; WPA; New Deal

Publicity, F.D.R.’s early flair for,
43
,
55
,
80

PWA.
See
Public Works Administration

“Quarantine the aggressor,”
318-19

Québec Conference,
464

Radicals, F.D.R. and the,
241-46
;
see also
Left opposition; Right and left pressures; Socialists; Communists; Union party

Radio, F.D.R.’s use,
99
,
118
,
227
,
455
;
see also
Fireside chats

Railroad regulation,
170

Railroad Retirement Act,
231

Railway Brotherhoods,
270

Rainey, Henry T.,
166
,
174
,
175

Raskob, John J.,
99
,
100
,
242