Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yet Wendell Willkie showed every sign of feeling just about as much defeated as a grizzly bear on a rampage. Willkie is one of the few businessmen who, after trading punches with the New Deal, appeared to have as much fight left in him as his New Deal opponent. Fortnight...
Besides having no automobile, he carries no watch. He gets the time from waiters, or from clocks in store windows, and one of the duties of his man secretary is to tell him the time. The other duties of the secretary include seeing that his clothes are pressed and that...
When Willkie got back from France, where he spent several months defending court-martialed soldiers from army discipline, he got a job in the Firestone legal department at Akron, later joined the law firm of Mather & Nesbitt and became one of the attorneys for Northern Ohio Power & Light (now Ohio...
This "possibility" is at present mildly fantastic, but obviously Wendell Willkie is still going places. Into Willkie's office come 500 letters weekly, all urging him to keep up the fight, many predicting that it will wind up with him in the White House. On these Wendell Willkie casts...
He believes that the "magic touch of par" corrupted business in the booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just as destructive on Pennsylvania Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par goes to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napoleon on the desk of a businessman...