Word: genial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Big Jim Farley, his genial, pink face solemn with the importance of the moment, called the press in to bear witness to a prophecy not lightly made...
Philip Francis Maguire, 37, is a genial, rock-jawed Irishman who went to Washington as lawyer for the old NRA, later helped Milo Perkins get his famed food-stamp plan started. Now he is an anonymous assistant to WPBoss Donald Nelson, serving as buffer and jack-of-all-trades, working ably and realistically on a dozen jobs at once. A bear for detail, he has taken all the load of minutiae off Nelson's overburdened shoulders...
...Roosevelt plump for Mead meant a battle with Jim Farley, once his closest political friend. It meant kicking the pins from under John Bennett, once a Roosevelt protégé. And big, bald, genial Jim Farley was determined to make this a real fight. After all, he had the delegates (up to now). Within an hour after Jim Mead announced his candidacy, Jim Farley issued a bone-bruising statement. He cited nine occasions on which Jim Mead had said he did not want to be Governor of New York; he said Jim Mead was "scared" of the job, said...
...What perhaps hurt O'Daniel most was the loss of an old friend and backer: Eugene Ben Germany, wealthy oilman and executive chairman of the State Democratic Committee. This time powerful Mr. Germany is all for genial Jim Allred...
...upped genial, broad-shouldered, tall William Loren Batt, 57, from chairman of the requirements committee to be vice chairman of WPB. chief of staff to determine policies, direct operations. Batt rose from a Wabash farm and an Indiana roundhouse to head the big S.K.F. Industries (ball bearings), went into NDAC...