Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's right to claim credit for all House legislation as part of his recovery program while damning defeated measures as the Democratic program, was vigorously challenged by Stumpster Garner who concluded...
...whether Herbert Hoover or John Garner is the greater authority on finance and legislation but whether directness and frankness is more likely to put us on the road to economic recovery than their Pollyanna statements and hiding the truth. . . . There's nothing the matter with the finances and credit of the U. S. except gross mismanagement...
...experiencing now some of the disasters to a national credit structure which rests on the banking laws of 49 different sovereignties...
...Viceroy it was because of a successful love affair. The second woman, Alice Edith Cohen, who became his first wife, persuaded him to leave a failing career as a stockbroker and study law. Colleagues rate him below his contemporaries Lord Birkenhead and Sir John Simon as a lawyer. They credit his industry (he got up at 4 a. m.), his wit and polish, his amazing memory for figures for the fact that soon after he began practicing he was earning the fashionable income of ?30.000 per year. "Figures spoke to him like poetry to another man," commented a fascinated observer...
...Every Garage?a Chicken in Every Pot. This year the election turns on larger but less concrete issues. At work below the surface are economic forces too abstract and complex for the average cartoonist to depict?the Gold Standard, War Debts, a Balanced Budget, 50¢ wheat, "Pork," "Panic," Credit Inflation, a Change. The Republicans are fighting a defensive battle on a Record that does not lend itself to easy lampooning. Ridicule of the Democratic attack has been mostly superficial and clumsy. The only new personality to enter the campaign is the Forgotten Man, and no cartoonist knows...