Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington for their annual convention. Always astute in his press relations, the President saw some 50 leading editors whose attitude toward the Administration will make.a big difference in public opinion during the next year. He talked to them for nearly two hours, speaking of the New Deal in candid terms, admitting failures he could never make public. In confidence his guests heard such significant things as that which he also intimated to newshawks last week: that he is not eager for new monetary experiments since dollar devaluation measures did not raise prices as much as their sponsors had promised...
Besides investigators Mr. Hopkins keeps busy a set of accountants who have set up books for state relief and CWA projects, supply him with complete reports of every cent spent in every state. He was quite candid in speaking of graft to Congressional inquirers: "On work relief we may have an occasional padded payroll. . . . I think in the main [Civil Works projects] are three or four times as good as the projects under relief. . . . Political interference has been a difficulty. I would not say it is serious but it has been a difficulty. I have quit getting mad about...
...volumes of his tetralogy are on a par with the first two (In Tragic Life-TIME, July 3; Passions Spin the Plot}. U. S. critics will be speaking of Idaho's Author Vardis Fisher in the same breath with Indiana's Theodore Dreiser. No less doggedly candid than Dreiser but a more artful writer, Author Fisher intends his four-decker novel to be an honest book. Because he has had a hard, unhappy life and because he writes only of what he knows, Vardis Fisher's books are not cheerful reading, have been called brutal, ruthless...
...your temperate and painstaking reports of this year's all-important monetary developments, when even the leading metropolitan dailies have apparently forsaken the respectable tradition of impartiality in their news columns, to propagandize for what they choose to call a sound dollar. Of particular social value are your candid, intelligible, impartial discussions of this difficult subject, when so many we read are drivel and buncombe. Congratulations...
Cuba. Swart Inquisitor Pecora brought a number of Chase's vice presidents to the stand and, more interesting, produced their candid correspondence with one another, procured from the Chase's letter files. One letter told that Jose ("Wood Louse") Obregon, son-in-law of President Machado hired by Chase's Havana branch (at $19,000 a year), had turned out to be absolutely useless for any purpose except entertaining clients; that Machado had used up $9,000,000 of a $12,000,000 pension trust fund. Other letters declared that $18,000,000 had been spent unnecessarily...