Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominee Sinclair wrapped his long radical arms around President Roosevelt, emerged to beam at reporters: "I talked with one of the kindest and most genial and frank and open-minded and capable men I ever met. . . . We folks out in California speculate as to what he is doing and how much he knows about it. I am very happy to tell the people of California that he knows...
...result of his Eastern junket, word was spread through the Democracy that genial Mr. Sinclair could be "handled." Told off to do the handling in California were Messrs. McAdoo and Creel. At the Democratic State Convention the party platform failed to mention the name EPIC, made no commitments as to the Sinclair proposals for land colonies, scrip, bond issues, high income taxes or pensions. EPIC was emasculated save for pledges to put the unemployed to work at productive labor, enabling them to produce what they could consume; to put the State's credit and resources behind cooperative self-help...
...prisoner in Hot Springs, Ark., his friends got in touch with a gangster in Kansas City named Verne C. Miller and enlisted his help in a plan to free Nash on his way back to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Miller went to Assistant Boss John Lazia for help. Genial, bespectacled Lazia was sorry, but he made it a point never to involve his own men in outside affairs. However, he knew two very good outsiders who were in Kansas City at the moment - Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd and Adam Richetti. Next morning it was Miller, Floyd and Richetti...
...large library, a summer home in Massachusetts, and a costly cope (capelike ecclesiastical vestment) which excited much comment at last year's Catholic Congress in Philadelphia, whither he had it shipped in an enormous packing case (TIME, Nov. 6). Bishop Perry is an enlightened, cultured divine whose genial oratory makes him especially welcome at public dinners. He is also the first Presiding Bishop to hold office since, in 1930, the mother Church of England recognized the U. S. Church as its first colonial branch and promoted its head from last (16th) place in the Anglican hierarchy to the seventh...
...Either our genial President stretched the truth in order to be jovial with his new-found comrade, or Sinclair wished to keep the minds of the reporters off embarrassing ground...