Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respecter of persons, a flu bug bit Franklin Roosevelt last week, while other bugs attacked Secretaries Stephen Early and "Missy" Le Hand. The bedded President certified his plan to board U. S. S. Houston this week and view the Navy's war game restfully under tropical sun (see p. 12). He also managed to get some work done...
...Washington to discuss trade, money, Dictators and armaments was Brazil's Foreign Minister, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, onetime (1934-38) Ambassador to the U. S. Secretary Hull had a bug, too, but omnipresent Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles took good care of Dr. Aranha. The Navy's impending war game emphasized Brazil's importance in a war involving "hemisphere defense" (see p. 12), and Dr. Aranha stated that in any "international civil war," Brazil would be on the U. S. side, "Absolutely!" His major contribution to U. S. news columns was that the "old" Germans in Brazil...
...mounting importance of Joe Strecker as a Reddish bug under the national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind...
Whether it is actually "record-breaking crowds" that bring about these periodical hold-over weeks, or whether there is something mysterious going on behind the scenes, is a question that has always intrigued us. Strange it is that the hold-over bug seems so frequently to strike several theatres at once; it is as if some deep, dark conspiracy were being hatched, either in Boston or else further West. On the other hand, the Boston palaces are notoriously jealous of their prestige,--as concerned with public relations as a Freshman on the Dean's List; perhaps the whole thing...
Among the swarming professional Brain Trusters, CCC's director was as a potato bug among dragonflies. "Why, most of my clerks are better educated than I am," Robert Fechner used to say. He quit school when he was 16, worked in a railroad machine shop, then wandered to Mexico, Central and South America and back again as an itinerant machinist. He fought through a losing general strike in 1901 for the 9-hour day, was elected in 1913 to the general executive board of the A. F. of L. machinists' union. He sandwiched in a year...