Word: granted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such success was made possible by the original willingness of U. S. magazines to grant Publisher Wallace reprint rights in return for a Readers Digest credit line. However, Publisher Wallace began to pay something for his material in money as well as publicity as soon as he began to make some for himself...
Last week Allan Nevins, whose biography of Grover Cleveland won him the Pulitzer Prize for 1932, offered a full-length portrait of the Secretary that clarified the disorder of Grant's regime, revealed aspects of U. S. political life of which few voters have been aware. Fish was an excellent choice as central figure for such a study. Unchangeable, incorruptible, with his prejudices, political views and limitations firmly fixed by the time he took office, he served as a standard of consistency against which the dishonesties and irresponsibilities of his colleagues could be measured. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History...
...diary. Born in 1808, the son of a distinguished Revolutionary officer, Fish's first 60 years were relatively uneventful. In the next eight he packed a lifetime of effort into the negative task of preventing trouble. He kept his head while around him plotters, many of them with Grant's support, worked for war with England and Spain, the annexation of Santo Domingo and Canada. The one real achievement of Grant's Administration was the settlement of the Alabama Claims by the first great arbitration of modern history, in which Fish, able, conciliatory, determined, blocked Sumner...
...Grant's reasons for appointments to foreign posts was because he wanted to get someone out of the country. The high point of Hamilton Fish is in its picture of the strange and lonely President, who would send his old friends to Fish with a card stating his willingness "to give the bearer . . . one of the best consulates now vacant," who confided State secrets to strangers and who was so inattentive that after weeks of discussion he would suddenly ask a question that betrayed complete ignorance of the subject discussed. After 27 months of the Cuban revolt, when Spanish...
Author Nevins' 200-page study of the corruption of Grant's Administration, and his two chapters devoted to the President, only deepen the mystery of Grant's personality, although they reveal more clearly than any previous work the character of his weaknesses. Telling again the story of the Whiskey Ring exposure, the panic of 1873, the affair of the U. S. Minister to England who floated a dishonest mining corporation, of Attorney General Williams who paid his large household expenses with Federal funds, of Grant's scheme to annex Santo Domingo for the benefit...