Word: janizariat
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...Honest") Harold LeClair Ickes, after his handsome salute to the Negro vote in Baltimore (TIME, Oct. 17), crossed the continent upon the first major trial-balloon ascension of the White House Janizariat, which seeks data on 1940. Ostensibly out to whoop up the New Deal for the Congressional elections and attend a few ceremonies at which his presence was appropriate, Mr. Ickes went armed with eight full-length addresses to deliver in twelve days (besides informal talks and short speeches...
...these-carefully prepared and prereleased to the press-the editing of Janizaries Corcoran & Cohen was unmistakable. They stamped Mr. Ickes as Possibility No. 1 in the Janizariat's mind for a 1940 Presidential candidate acceptable to Mr. Roosevelt, a candidate to be built up before Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley and his alliance of local bosses can converge on someone else, such as Missouri's Senator Bennett Clark.* "I think President Roosevelt would carry the United States if he ran again, and he might have to run," declared Mr. Ickes...
...Also returning from Europe, Lawyer Benjamin Cohen of the White House Janizariat was besieged by newshawks, insisted he had had nothing but vacation. When the newshawks eyed his bulging briefcase he declared its contents: not State papers, but the Cohen pajamas and toothbrush...