Word: janizariat
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...other "brain guys"-pass unrecognized on any streets but Washington's. The views of each of these Presidential advisers differ radically in practically every respect except devotion to the Boss. Berle and The Cork enthusiastically dislike each other; Hopkins has "stabbed" Corcoran so often that the Janizariat often wonders if there is a fresh spot left for the knife. What they all now think of Associate Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy could not be printed, although not many months ago they spread rumors that Murphy was a saint in a sack suit...
...President turned again to business, finance and industry for help in the defense crisis, as the defense program became not just one new bureau but the whole Washington operation, the mutually distrustful Janizariat found a new unity, began to scheme how to regain their lost control...
...candy-striped chairs, a crystal chandelier, a plumed, bustled lady of the English Regency, framed in the pink-&-gilt fireplace, delicately offering all comers a symbolic prize-a prickly rose. In this room operated dapper young Vic Sholis, Hopkins' secretary, and soft-spoken David K. Niles, the Janizariat's undercover man, who engineered the biggest financial coup of the 1936 campaign by wangling $500,000 out of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers...
There remained only big Jim Farley. What Harry Hopkins & Co. wanted was a real draft: nomination by actual acclamation. Failing this, the Janizariat wanted a nomination by apparent acclamation. But Mr. Farley stood solidly in the way, and no nomination opposed by the only Democrat beloved from end to end of the party could be made to seem unanimous...
...came the payoff. The Janizariat had plugged for Supreme Court Justice Douglas, whom they regard as the "killer" member of their group. But Franklin Roosevelt blithely ignored their wishes, personally selected Secretary Wallace-a man who has been anathema to the Janizariat since he first purged the Agriculture Department of Jerome Frank and other Corcoran...