Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy Hull once said: "Cord was always just like a grown man, from the time he could walk." Nade had the best memory but Cord was the best speaker. Once he wrote a powerful essay titled "Clothes Don't Make the Man," delivered it wearing a blue homespun work shirt. But his one real passion seemed to be politics, which he followed with the same sort of scorecard interest with which schoolboys now follow baseball...
...first, in the glittering company of Raymond Moley and the other brilliant original New Dealers, Mr. Hull's homespun generalities and international outlook seemed dreamy idealism. But over the years Cordell Hull showed staying-power, and gradually Franklin Roosevelt became a Hull man, carrying out Hull doctrines, whereas nowhere was there evidence that Mr. Hull was a New Dealer. "I just tends to ma inte'national affairs," he always said when chums tried to needle him into criticisms of the gyrating show around...