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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, as writer and orator: as speaker,
33
,
70-71
,
93-94
,
99
,
103
,
118
,
143
,
205
,
227
,
282-83
,
455
; as author,
89-90
; letters,
488
ff
.; fireside chats,
118
,
167-68
,
176
,
195
,
203
,
205
,
300
,
346
,
360
,
363
,
460
,
464
; important addresses: 1919, League to Enforce Peace,
70
; 1919, Democratic National Committee,
71
; 1924, Democratic National Convention (Smith nomination—“Happy Warrior”),
93-94
; 1926, Milton Academy,
90
; 1928, Democratic State Convention,
98-99
; 1928, Smith campaign speeches,
102-4
; 1929, gubernatorial inauguration,
105
,
110
; 1930, gubernatorial re-election campaign,
121-22
; 1932, Oglethorpe University (“Forgotten Man”),
133
; nomination acceptance (“New Deal”),
139-40
; 1932, campaign speeches,
142-44
; first inaugural address (“Nothing to fear but fear …”),
161-64
; 1936, State of Union,
227-28
; 1936, renomination acceptance (“Economic royalists”),
273-75
; 1936, Chautauqua (war dangers),
276-77
; 1936, Harvard tercentenary,
278
; 1936, campaign speeches,
279-83
; 1937, second inaugural,
291-93
; 1937, Democratic victory dinner (“One third of a nation”),
299-300
; 1937, Chicago (“Quarantine the aggressor”),
318-19
; 1938, Jackson Day dinner,
324
; 1938 congressional election speeches,
365-66
; 1938, University of North Carolina,
367
; 1939, State of Union,
389
; 1939, radio (war outbreak),
395
; 1940, University of Virginia (“dagger in the back”),
421
; 1940, renomination acceptance,
430
; 1940, campaign replies to Willkie,
446-51

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Jr. (third son of F.D.R.),
67
,
107
,
153
,
166
,
181
,
421
,
468
,
478

Roosevelt, Isaac (great-great-grandfather of F.D.R.),
7
,
76
,
161

Roosevelt, Isaac (grandfather of F.D.R.),
7

Roosevelt, Jacobus (ancestor; son of Nicholas),
7

Roosevelt, James (great-grandfather of F.D.R.),
7
,
161

Roosevelt, James (father of F.D.R.),
3-10
passim
,
11
,
18
,
25
,
28
,
32
,
76

Roosevelt, James (eldest son of F.D.R.),
35
,
103
,
107
,
132
,
153
,
162
,
181
,
381
,
386
,
478
; as presidential assistant,
300
,
337
,
382

Roosevelt, James Roosevelt (half-brother of F.D.R.),
9

Roosevelt, Johannes (brother of Jacobus; direct ancestor of Theodore),
7

Roosevelt, John (youngest son of F.D.R.),
67
,
107
,
132
,
153
,
162
,
166
,
468
,
478

Roosevelt, Klaes Martensen van (first Roosevelt ancestor in America),
7

Roosevelt, Nicholas R. (son of Klaes; last common ancestor, F.D.R, and Theodore),
7

Roosevelt, Sara Delano (Mrs. James; mother of F.D.R.),
3-10
,
18
,
19
,
26-30
passim
,
67
,
84
,
87
,
107
,
200
,
407
,
496
; opposes F.D.R.’s entrance into politics,
76-78
,
90
; on Russia,
190
, influence on F.D.R.,
476
; death,
468
; memoirs,
485
n

Roosevelt, Taddy (nephew of F.D.R.),
10-11

Roosevelt, Theodore (fifth cousin of F.D.R.; uncle of Eleanor),
6-7
,
9
,
17-32
passim
,
50
,
51
,
76
,
79
,
80
,
108
,
151
,
176
,
199
,
203
,
222
,
424
,
453
,
480
; influence on F.D.R.,
24-25
,
43
,
57
,
179
,
182
,
473
; as a reformer,
38
,
54
,
365
; Spanish-American War,
50
; “New Nationalism,”
54
; 1912 election,
45
,
48
,
49
,
212
; second term difficulties,
347
; Bull Moose bolt (1916),
47
,
49
; World War I,
61
,
62
,
65
; death,
73
; ideas and vigor,
155
,
156
; power to evoke enthusiasm,
214
; Steffens on his thinking,
475
; quoted on presidency as a pulpit,
476

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. (son of Theodore; distant cousin of F.D.R.),
76
,
86
,
95
,
496

Roosevelt Library, Franklin D.,
491
ff
.

Roosevelt and O’Connor (law firm),
90

Root, Elihu,
32
,
59
,
108
,
230
,
251
; quoted on the Roosevelts,
50

Roper, Daniel C.,
53
,
149
,
177
,
269
,
320
,
368

Rosenman, Samuel I.,
101-3
,
106
,
113
,
128
; 1932 campaign,
139
; 1936 campaign,
285
; Supreme Court fight,
293
; 1940 campaign,
428
,
429
,
436
,
448-49
,
450
; party realignment plan (1944),
466-67
; “little cabinet” (World War II),
465
; quoted,
273

Rumania,
384

Russia,
260
,
261
,
280
; U.S. recognition,
190
; Czechoslovakia crisis,
384-85
; Soviet-Nazi pact,
394
,
416
,
417
; invasion of Finland,
408
,
415
; World War II,
462
(
see also
World War II); entry into war against Japan,
470
;
see also
Stalin; Communism

Ruthenia,
390

Sachs, Alexander,
397

St, James Episcopal Church (Hyde Park),
29
,
237
,
452

St. Lawrence Power Development Commission,
114

St. Lawrence power project,
108
,
112-15
,
190

St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty (defeated, 1933),
190

St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
,
441

St. Louis
Star-Times
,
301
,
302

Santo Domingo, F.D.R. visit (1917),
62

Saipan,
468

Saito, Makoto, Viscount,
261

Sakhalin,
469

Saltonstall, Leverett,
365

Sandburg, Carl,
423

Sandoz, Jeanne,
10

San Francisco Conference (UN),
471

Saturday Evening Post
,
337

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., quoted,
371

Schlosser, John F.,
30
,
32-34

Schmedeman, A. G.,
201

Schuschnigg, Kurt von,
354

“Scientific Management,” F.D.R. on,
52

Scotland,
64

Scripps-Howard newspapers,
184
;
see also
Howard, Roy

Seabury, Samuel,
128
,
141
,
153

SEC.
See
Securities and Exchange Commission

“Second front,”
464

“Second Hundred Days,”
223-26

“Section 7a.”
See
NRA; Collective bargaining

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
325

Securities regulation,
162
ff
.,
170
,
189
,
325
;
see also
Business regulation; Banking reforms

Selective service,
439
,
443
,
445
,
448
,
452
,
460
;
see also
Compulsory military service

Selective Service Act,
443
,
445

Seligman, Lester G.,
484
n
; quoted,
484

Senate,
22-23
,
38
; direct election,
36
,
38
,
42
;
see also
Congress

Senatorial courtesy,
370

Separation of powers.
See
Checks and balances

“Share-Our-Wealth” movement,
211
,
213
;
see also
Long, Huey L.

Shaver, Clem,
95
,
96

Sheehan, William F.,
36-41
;
see also
Sheehan fight (
below
)

Sheehan fight,
36-42
,
79
,
91
,
92
,
498-99

Shepard, Edward M.,
36

Sherman, William T.,
425

Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890),
22
;
see also
Trusts and monopolies

Sherwood, Robert,
373
,
436
,
448
,
450
; quoted on F.D.R.,
145
,
472

Shipstead, Henrik,
202
,
203
,
306

Shouse, Jouett,
135-36
,
206
,
242

Sicily,
464

Simon, Sir John,
250

Sims, William S.,
64

Sinclair, Upton,
200-1
,
203

Slovakia,
390

Smith, Adam,
240

Smith, Alfred E.,
5
,
36-43
passim
,
60
,
64
,
110-21
passim
,
156
; alliance with F.D.R. (1920-28),
72-73
,
91-104
passim
,
119
; alliance ends,
105-6
,
129
,
452
; 1932 campaign,
128-38
passim
,
141
; joins Liberty League,
206
,
241-42
,
246
; 1936 campaign,
271
,
272
,
281
; 1940 campaign,
452

Smith, Cotton Ed,
188
,
341
,
363-64
,
393

Smith, Gerald L. K.,
271

Smith, Harold, on F.D.R. administrative ability,
373-74

Smith, Jim (N. J. boss),
47

Smith, Kate,
393

Smoot-Hawley Tariff,
177
;
see also
Tariff

Snell, Bertrand H.,
167
,
324
; quoted,
167

Social security,
124
,
164
ff
.,
212-13
,
219-22
,
226
,
242-43
,
266-67
,
305

Social Security Act,
224
,
226
,
242-44
,
267
,
305

Social Welfare Department, proposed by F.D.R.,
344

Socialism,
15
; charge of New Deal as,
241-43
;
see also below

Socialist party,
22-23
,
49
,
83
,
144
,
156
,
200
,
241-43
,
356

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936,
234
,
342
;
see also
AAA; Farm policies; New Deal

Solomon Islands,
464

South Africa,
250

Southard, Jacob,
44

Southern bloc,
96
,
135
,
137-38
,
154
,
175
,
272
,
321
,
341-43
;
see also
Democratic party; Congress

Soviet Union.
See
Russia; Stalin

Spanish-American War,
13

Spanish civil war,
261
,
318
,
355-56
,
390
,
423

Spanish Morocco,
261

Spencer, Herbert,
240

Sprague, O. W. M.,
206

Spratly Islands,
390

Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil,
53

“Square Deal,”
179

Staff, F.D.R.,
101
,
116
,
117
,
150-56
,
203
,
227
,
264-66
; campaign staff,
130
,
140
,
142
; advisers and “brain trust,”
129
,
140
,
148
,
153-56
,
172
,
206
,
265-66
,
324-27
,
333-36

Stalin, Joseph,
6
,
22
,
373
,
390
,
393
,
394
,
400
; Teheran Conference,
464-65
; Yalta Conference,
469-70
;
see also
Russia

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