Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ERNEST K. HARTMAN...
When the Press trooped in to see what manner of man this was that President Roosevelt had called from the Presidency of American Car & Foundry to run the Treasury at a moment of greatest national emergency, they found small William Hartman Woodin, his eyes as blue as his shirt and collar, his cupid mouth pursed in an easy little smile, sitting informally on the edge of his desk, swinging his legs. Piped a pert newshawk: "Mr. Secretary, you're in a pretty hot spot, aren't you?" The brand-new Secretary reached down to his big black leather...
...Roxy, restored last week to Radio City's Music Hall) as the most interesting statue of the year. Sculptor Fiene admits no hobby beyond his sculpture, but he owns two Siamese cats, makes them earn their daily herring by posing for him and his wife, Painter Rosella Hartman...
...Citizen Roosevelt had no lust to gloat over the wintry country he was soon to rule. At his side sat little child-faced William Hartman Woodin, soon to be master of the greatest treasury in the world. At his side sat professorial Raymond Moley, raised from the classroom to the councils of the great, but they had few thoughts of pomp and circumstance. The ruthless pressure of events gave them time to consider but one hard fact: that in four days the bank deposits of twelve states had been seized by the frozen hand of Depression...
Secretary of the Treasury. William Hartman Woodin, 64, had 21 important directorships to resign when President-elect Roosevelt picked him for this portfolio after Carter Glass turned it down. The appointment of such a successful manufacturer of railroad equipment to head Federal finances heartened U. S. business. Secretary Woodin is a "hard money" man who can be counted on to oppose all schemes for currency inflation. He was a stanch Union League Republican until, as fuel administrator for New York in 1922, he came under the spell of Governor Smith, whose presidential candidacy he supported...