Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Houghwout Jackson, Mr. Roosevelt's Attorney General, is the man whom the President admires above all others: for honesty, brain power, practical New Dealism, skill at interpreting and applying New Deal law. But lacking in his tie to the President is the inner intimacy which binds Roosevelt and Hopkins...
...Industrialists William Knudsen and Edward Stettinius, Labor's Sidney Hillman, are often at the White House to talk and administer Defense (see p. 77). A curious, fateful fact about Franklin Roosevelt is that none of these men-not even Cordell Hull-belongs to the President's innermost Inner Circle. They are professionals or emergency specialists with whom the President must and does consult and cooperate; but between him and them, there is no natural affinity...
THROUGH THE HOUSE DOOR-Helen Hull-Coward-McCann ($2.50). The love of a good woman is sorely tried by the inner withdrawal of an almost blind husband and the importunities of a compelling man-about-town. The child makes it a quadrangle. Neither as intent nor as interesting as Miss Hull's Experiment (TIME, Feb. 5), but well above the slop level...
More reservedly enthusiastic were the sun-&-fun-loving income-tax-avoiding members of Nassau's Anglo-American cafe society. As spokesman of the colony's inner circle, Jane, Lady Williams-Taylor, grandmother of onetime Glamor Girl No. 1, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, decided the Duchess "will be received," primly explained that "she is the wife of the king's representative...
Quakers abhor intensity of word or deed, believe merely that "the presence of God is an illumination to the soul." When they gather for worship they keep silent, knowing that this "Inner Light" will move them to say what is fitting when it is fitting. (If no one is moved after an hour of quiet, the meeting is over.) Quakers have little ritual, no ordained priesthood. Their societies are organized simply in Preparative Meetings (one or more congregations), Monthly Meetings (one or more Preparative Meetings), Quarterly Meetings (members from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (members from several Quarterly Meetings), General...