Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preholiday rush around Washington, no one was busier than O. Max Gardner. He had to wind up his job as Under Secretary of the Treasury and get off to England. He had to go to the tailor's. He was glad to discover that he could still fit into the cutaway and striped pants which he had worn for his inaugural as governor of North Carolina 17 years ago. With his wife, he left in high fettle to spend Christmas at their home in Shelby, N.C. Next month he would leave for London, to become the new American...
...British, turned an inquisitive eye on the man who was about to assume America's top assignment in foreign diplomacy-the successor to Thomas Pinckney, John Jay, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James Russell Lowell, John Hay et al. Who was O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner...
From there ruddy, gregarious Max Gardner had moved on Washington. Because of his cotton interests (Cleveland Cloth Mills) and various directorships, he was able to lead the life of a prosperous lawyer. An early New Dealer, he attracted the favorable attention of Franklin Roosevelt, for whom he did odd jobs such as acting as special counsel to FCC. But he fought the court-packing plan...
...good reason, he was appointed Under Secretary of the Treasury. Other Truman appointments had provoked loud outcries. But Gardner was safe & sound, middle-of-the-road, and commanded respect in Congress. He had helped his friend Fred Vinson (then Secretary) on the laborious backstage negotiations for the British loan. A hardheaded Ambassador like Gardner will be useful to the U.S. next July when, under the loan terms, the British must thaw out enough currency now frozen in the sterling area to give U.S. current creditors payment in dollars. For hard-pressed Britain, this will not be easy...
Phrasemaker. Big, 64-year-old Max Gardner had a sneaking regret that he would not be required to wear breeches and silk stockings at the Court of St. James's. He has well-shaped, muscular legs; in college he was a football star. Not that he cottons much to this king stuff. But he likes a good time...