Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early in 1927 Mr. Hoover, casting an anxious eye over the prospective political battleground, beheld Mr. Brown wasting his talents on the Ohio air. He called him to Washington officially as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, unofficially as a campaign manager. Mr. Brown put his candidate in the Ohio presidential primaries, where defeat would have been certain had not Death scratched his rival, Senator Frank B. Willis...
...Brown is slick, suave, smooth, poker-faced. He smiles instead of laughs. As trustee of the Lucas County Children's Home, he is called "Uncle Walt" by its young inmates. Foods and their preparation fascinate him. He has an almost feminine passion for cooking. He refuses to eat a strawberry that has touched water. A Harvard graduate, he is 60, below medium height, dark of hair, slow to wrath...
Every Administration needs an expert on patronage. Mr. Brown will serve Mr. Hoover in this capacity, the Post Office being the largest job-pasture in the Government (365,000 workers). Since President Hoover has evinced an interest in Government reorganization, perhaps the Brown Plan of 1921 will emerge from its pigeonhole. Otherwise, and perhaps even so, Mr. Brown may be counted on as a quiet yes-peg with a political point...
Third was Dr. Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan. Smooth-faced, brown-eyed, athletic, this churchman, too, seemed to prefer the diocese in which he found himself, and declined...
...Calkins is president of Calkins & Hoiden Inc., prominent Manhattan agency, books on advertising include Louder Please (Atlantic Monthly Press, $2.50), The Business of Advertising (D. Appleton & Co., $2.00), Business, the Civilizer (Little, Brown, & Co., $3.00), and The Advertising Man (Scnbner...