Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt took office he was deliberately backward about naming deserving Democrats to office. Instead, he dangled appointments before Congress like clover before a mule, easily guided legislators along the road he chose. After a time when they began to bray in protest, he allowed them to nibble his succulent provender. The New Deal has now created some 70,000 Federal jobs outside the Civil Service and cries of "too much patronage" are now rising louder & louder. But hungry Congressmen remain unsatisfied. Last week as prelude to a House caucus on patronage six Democrats headed by Speaker Byrns marched...
...State bowled them down. When Counsel Reilly's "50" witnesses turned out to be a bare dozen, he loudly cried "intimidation!" Prosecution officials replied that when they put their investigators on the trail of some characters scheduled to appear for Counsel Reilly, the would-be witnesses discreetly chose to "walk out" on the defense...
...commission to investigate the matter. By the time the commission gets around to making a report, the public has usually cooled off, forgotten what the outcry was all about. Most notorious use of this prolonged investigational device was the Wickersham Report on Law Observance and Enforcement, which President Hoover chose to ignore (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Last winter President Roosevelt found himself in his first hot water following precipitate cancellation of the country's airmail contracts. Adopting the familiar strategy, he telephoned that good Democrat, roly-poly Publisher Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution, asked him to chairman...
...Hollywood one evening last December Sidney & Doris Preisler went to the cinema. They had been married a year. Sidney, 25, was a musician. Doris, 21, was four months pregnant. Seeking light amusement they chose the Hollywood Pantages Theatre where a film called Imitation of Life was showing. Warmed by the picture's exaltation of mother-love, the Preislers were in a pleasant glow when it came to an end and a Universal Newsreel took its place...
...Senator Hubert Durrett Stephens, who got him an appointment to the Federal Radio Commission. When the Radio Commission became the Communications Commission last June, Judge Sykes was continued as chairman of the new body. When Theodore Bilbo entered the Democratic primary against Senator Stephens last year, Chairman Sykes chose to side with his later rather than his earlier benefactor. He made trips from Washington to Mississippi to take part in the campaign, arranged for anti-Bilbo broadcasts, did all in his power "to prevent Theodore G. Bilbo from crossing the Potomac in 1935." In return, Stumpster Bilbo vowed eternal vengeance...