Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt; 2) a club wherewith the President can cow Jim Farley, who would rather have almost anybody nominated but Mr. McNutt; 3) anathema to New Deal extremists like Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who said last fortnight that Paul McNutt could never win liberal support. Roared genial Mr. McNutt: "You don't know whether the quarterback wants you to carry the ball or to run interference. Sometimes the whole team wants to call the signals. .. . My office [Federal Security Administrator] is only an epithet away from the Interior Department and a stone's throw from the Post...
...residents of France were thoroughly vexed when the Embassy, in the holiday absence of genial Ambassador Bill Bullitt, began a drive to obtain their fingerprints and urge as many of them as possible out of the country...
...Cover) One quiet day ten years ago United Pressman Lyle Wilson burst into the press office of the State Department with a little model airplane in his hand. The State Department's genial Press Division Chief Michael McDermott was talking with a few reporters. Wilson began sailing his plane around the room...
...Assembly. Neutral observers in Havana agreed that Colonel Batista had gained in moral stature last week by giving Cuba one of the few fairly conducted elections it has ever had. That his reward was defeat at the polls was due, they thought, not so much to dislike of the genial Dictator as to an unreasoning eruption of Cuban disgust at hard times and a tendency to blame these on the Government...
...these regulations have been lightly administered by genial, mountainous Director of Censorship Walter Scott Thompson. Born in England, Director Thompson was a newspaperman himself (as a correspondent for various London journals he covered assignments in South Africa, Australia, the South Sea Islands) before he went to Canada in 1911, became an official pressagent for the Dominion's railways, steamships, hotels. It was Walter Thompson who took charge of publicity for the Royal Visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth last spring...