Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hull is universally respected as an estimable gentleman of the highest purposes, but the impression-under which he seems to labor-that either he or the State Department has been appointed constitutional maiden aunt to the American people is erroneous...
...Bristol's potent Dockers' Union he met young Ernest Bevin (now Minister of Labor), gave him his first union job and became the strongest influence in his life. After the abdication of his good friend the Duke of Windsor he said: "I regret that that great little gentleman did not let fly ... and tell us just what the bishops and politicians, who hounded him from public life, were pressing...
Trouble on the Hill. Morgenthau's most ignominious tussles have taken place on Capitol Hill. Like any gentleman farmer turned Treasury Secretary, he shuddered to face Congressional committees alone, hesitated to express positive opinions. With him, on his visits to Capitol Hill, went a half-dozen Treasury experts, not always enough to keep him out of hot water...
...debating poll-tax repeal. Because a quorum was lacking, the Sergeant at Arms was ordered to arrest absent members, march them straight to the floor. A Jurney deputy captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar in a hotel room and made Senator McKellar feudin' mad. Last week the gentleman from Tennessee showed just how mad that...
These startling statistics were headlined last week by the newspaper PM, which stated that it backed them with a study made by OPA. Run with a cartoon showing a stout gentleman in a frock coat with an American flag in one hand and a bag of money in the other, the figures purported to be a damning indictment of the U.S. business profiteer...