Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most interested spectator at President Roosevelt's conference with the Senators was a lean-faced, youngish man of 44 with a mop of dark brown hair just turning grey and deep thoughtful eyes-an economic idealist. Taciturn, he sat and listened most of the time. He was Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture and the official upon whose none-too-husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power...
...sent police to arrest the Administrative nine. Seven were caught. One, Alfredo Garcia Morales, hid in the Argentine Embassy. Baltazar Brum, facing the end of parliamentary order in Uruguay, met police with a revolver in each hand, wounded two detectives and took refuge in the Spanish Legation. Soon Idealist Brum came out of "dishonorable" hiding and died by his own hand on his own doorstep. His wife stoically carried his body inside. In Montevideo, Brum's death hurt Dictator Terra's prestige...
Died. Belle Lindner Israels Moskowitz, 55, good friend & adviser to Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime publicity director for the New York State Democratic Committee; of complications following a fall down her front steps last month when she broke both arms; in Manhattan. A practical idealist, she plotted Smith's political rise, accepted no public office from him, earned Tammany Hall's hatred for her influence. When Smith's shot...
...McCook, Neb. (pop. 6,688) Governor Roosevelt greeted Republican Senator William Norris as "the very perfect gentle knight of American progressive ideals." Declared the Democratic nominee: "Senator Norris, I go along with you because you follow in their footsteps? 'radical' like Jefferson, 'demagog' like Jackson, 'idealist' like Lincoln, 'wild' like Theodore Roosevelt, 'theorist' like Wilson." Replied Nebraska's Senior Senator: "What this country needs is another Roosevelt in the White House...
...personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...