Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lodge Jr. ignored or declined invitations to sponsor her appearance. So did Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, presumably because he thinks Justices should shun partisan controversy. But Chief Justice & Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes accepted with pleasure, as did Associate Justice Hugo ("Klan") Black. For all who did not, New Dealer Ickes as Secretary of the Interior made things doubly uncomfortable by proffering the Emancipator for a backdrop...
Fred Brown's appointment was promptly confirmed by his old Senate colleagues. Friends of the new Comptroller, a loyal New Dealer despite his long ballpark friendship with John Nance Garner, thought he would earnestly try to compose the General Accounting Office's present squabbles with the Treasury, TVA, and other Government agencies. But if a Republican administration comes into office in the next ten years, Fred Brown may become a watchdog in earnest...
...while you're at the job, try to figure out a real honest-to-God Roosevelt New Dealer to take over the old man's job, so we can all get out of the fishbowl...
...infer by your public letter that I am not as strong in support of the President as you are. I am not a politician. I am not a New Dealer, anti-New Dealer or any other type of supporter of 'isms' but I am as loyal as you or any one else in the country to my father...
...White's article smoked out considerable idle curiosity and some idle capital. By last week he had received, by telephone, telegraph and mail from all over the land, 150 inquiries. Some of the inquirers: politicians, butchers, lawyers, realtors, a junk dealer. Most appeared to be merely window-shoppers, but some asked whether they could swap unspecified possessions for a college; one man was prepared to invest...