They were, at best, lukewarm Roosevelt supporters because the New Deal threatened their monopoly on patronage.

At one point, Roosevelt supporters in the galleries blew horns and rubbed sheets of sandpaper together to suggest the noise of a steamroller.

Indeed, according to his biography, he was a key Roosevelt supporter.

Roosevelt supporters offered Barkley the keynote address and temporary chairmanship of the 1932 Democratic National Convention if he would endorse their candidate.

"In that case," said a Roosevelt supporter from the West, whose name neither Thorne nor Blaise had heard, "the convention's under your control, Senator."

The room was now filled with Roosevelt supporters.

The thought of a huge gap in those tombstone teeth was terrifying to all Roosevelt supporters.

During this period, he worked closely with James Farley, chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee and another devoted Roosevelt supporter.

Mayor La Guardia, a Republican Roosevelt supporter, registered in the A.L.P. and received its endorsement in 1937 and 1941.

Two other founders, Amos Pinchot, a prominent lawyer from New York, and Edward Rumely had both been Roosevelt supporters who had soured on the President's agenda.