Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, notwithstanding the hankering of the White House Janizariat for John W. McCormack, of Boston's famous Ward 8. Last week Lindsay Warren, working glove-smooth with Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas, Whip Paddy Boland of Scranton, Pa., delivered the South bound-and-gagged to the New Deal. John McCormack broke a long and agonized silence on the embargo-repeal issue to deliver only a speech. In it he demanded that the U. S. recall its Ambassador from Moscow (see p. 15). Score at week's end: Warren I, McCormack...
...Imperialist war . . . is tearing away the veils of hypocrisy behind which the monopoly capitalists were hiding their ruthless dictatorship. . . . Thus 'democratic' America, even while it is technically neutral, forgets its liberal dream about a 'New Deal' and loses itself in a wave of reactionary sentiment. . . . Only the working class, rising in alliance with the rest of the toiling population, and taking the decisions out of the hands of the capitalist class, can prevent...
...soil. Liberal, as everybody knows, is William Allen White, 71, Republican, editor of the Emporia Gazette, backer of Alfred Landon, who last week published The Changing West to reaffirm his liberal views. Equally liberal is Bruce Bliven, 50, editor, who steered the New Republic straight along its New Deal course...
When the New Deal took over Washington, the great limestone & marble building which now houses the Post Office Department was nearing completion. Its architects wanted its walls decorated with the usual classical allegory. A special adviser to the State and Treasury Departments named Edward Bruce objected. A capable Manhattan lawyer who retired in 1922 to become a capable artist, he stormed: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into that building...
...Finns readily agree that their average athlete is neither mentally nor physically equipped for sprint or team sports. However, a good deal of soccer is played with moderate success, basketball has been introduced by touring American teams, and a Finnish variation of baseball is played largely in the country districts by 40,000 players in 600 clubs. But Finns regard track as their national sport even more fanatically than do Americans baseball or Englishmen cricket...