Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although not intended, there could be no greater compliment. Any paper with a long purse can receive pages of wireless. It takes brains to "pad" 50 words, as TIME should know...
...Other Dickinson indispensables include: smooth, young Secretary Leslie Butler-who siphons callers so carefully into his master's office that the Detroit Citizens' League once complained: "Honest citizens can't get in" -and Personal Secretary Margaret Shaw, whom, the Governor says, God sent him. ("I know there is a girl in my office answering letters in exactly the language I would use. I snooped one time, and there were the letters just as I would have written them. Who has been giving her that language? There is but one answer...
...Vetoed a bill which would have let a legislative committee continue its investigation of some nasty bridge-fund boodle. (Lawyer Boyles got the blame. Protested Mr. Dickinson to carpers: "Why, I didn't know that bill terminated the investigation. Judge Boyles told me to veto...
...make up for their short stature. But in the hard school of war they have learned to fight as well as strut. For the modern Italian army (900,000 men) is the only important European military machine with recent war experience. So its junior officers are apt to know more about fighting than junior officers of other nations...
...thinking of her column. Her chief adviser on economic problems is Alexander Sachs, an economist who works for Lehman Corp. and used to be head of NRA's economic research division. On foreign affairs she consults Hamilton Fish Armstrong, John Gunther, Quincy Howe. If she wants to know what the British are doing she calls Harold Nicolson in London. About France she talks to Raoul de' Roussy de Sales, U. S. correspondent for Paris-Soir. On Central Europe she calls any of her hundreds of refugee friends. On national issues she is likely to get most...