Word: couching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board room one day last week and sat down in four of the seven chairs around the directors' table. Secretary Woodin, ex-officio a board member, had hurried over from the Treasury to make up a quorum with Texas' Jesse Holman Jones, Arkansas' Harvey Crowley Couch, Utah's Wilson McCarthy...
...gotten around to filling three Republican directorships. The business before the board was the election of a chairman, a post vacant since March 4 when bald, bumbling Atlee Pomerene, Hoover appointee, was forced out by the Senate's refusal to confirm his nomination. Together went the Woodin, Couch and McCarthy heads. When they came apart Jesse Jones, Houston publisher, realtor, banker, lumberman and promoter, found himself unanimously elected R. F. C. chairman. Chairman Jones has been on the R. F. C. board since its inception (February 1932), has acted as chairman in rotation with the other three active members...
Against the curving white wall of President Roosevelt's study on the second floor of the White House stands a big black leather couch. It is comfortably low and squashy, holds four grown men. Many long sittings have worn off most of its shine. Before it on the floor lies a tiger- skin rug and within easy reach is a pedestal ashtray. The couch's deep easy pitch not only relaxes the body but loosens the tongue to friendly informal talk. If the World Economic Conference, opening in London June 12, proves a success, it will...
...actually on the couch during the White House talks, but sitting close by in the oval study was generally to be found last week a stocky, square-shouldered man of 46. Grey streaks his thin dark hair above a domed forehead. His nose is long and straight between round, ruddy cheeks, over a full-sized chin and small mouth. Mostly he listened but when he did speak between puffs of a cigaret, his voice was pleasantly rich and low. almost a diffident drawl. He was Raymond Moley. Officially he was there as an Assistant Secretary of State. Personally...
...French on tariffs, then into a third room to settle wheat matters with the Canadians, finally back to the first room to take up currency with the British. These rounds were not flashy enterprises to make newspaper headlines; they were a diplomatic necessity on which the White House couch talks were based. Let the President hesitate on a detail of India's silver holdings or France's light artillery or Canada's tariff administration-and Expert Moley was close at his side to supply the exact information. Once or twice a day during the week President Roosevelt...