Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's twelfth Secretary of Commerce, a job which has, at one time or another, fallen to an oddly contrasting lot of personalities : Herbert Hoover, a high-collared symbol of Republican conservatism; Harry Hopkins, the frail, dedicated symbol of the Roosevelt revolution; Henry Wallace, a symbol of the idealist gone wild and then sour; Jesse Jones, the hard-nosed banker-baron, Texas Stetson style; Averell Harriman, a symbol of the silver spoon and the itch to do good. If Charles Sawyer was the symbol of anything, he was a symbol of the man who never missed...