Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mutual dislike between Mr. Roosevelt and Vice President Garner has now reached the point where each hates the other's guts. Said Mr. Roosevelt last week to one visitor: "Old John is the best candidate the Republicans have...
Only tough old John Quincy Adams had gone out of the Presidency so thoroughly unpopular. Hoover had labored mightily, with a stubborn and inflexible conviction in the Tightness of his course, only to see his work go down in public ruin. And no U. S. politician except Adams, calmly stepping back to the House of Representatives to make his experience count, had recovered in political or human terms from the consequences of such a defeat...
Philosophy. Time was when listening to Herbert Hoover was a role for the intellectuals and the economists. In his devastating The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Economist John Maynard Keynes had harsh judgments to make on most of the public men of the post-War days. But of Herbert Hoover he wrote: "This complex personality . . . with his habitual air of an exhausted prizefighter . . . imported into the Councils of Paris . . . precisely that atmosphere of reality, knowledge, magnanimity and disinterestedness which, if they had been found in other quarters as well, would have given us the Good Peace...
Last week John Lewis' trouble shooter, Philip Murray, assembled the top officers of C. I. O.'s automobile union for a seminar in Pittsburgh. Subject: order in the ranks. Object: to make the sometimes disorderly United Automobile Workers of America behave, lest the union's ill repute further besmirch the whole...
...will have the veterans Captain Jack Rotman and John King at guards, Walter Williams at center, and James McCuddy and George Pantane at the forwards...