Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rawhide Jim put Lew to work as a mucker in the mines at Jerome, where he started learning copper the hard way. It was a rough life. Rawhide Jim was still the stern, domineering, iron-willed parent. (He had gone to France for the Red Cross during the war, became such an ardent Francophile that when he came home, he carried his own sack of French croissants whenever he went into a restaurant.) He kept a tight rein on Lew. Peggy hated the life. When a Prescott newsman suggested that Lew run for the state legislature, both Lew and Peggy...
White House Favorite. They piled into an old Ford, stumped the district together. Lew won handily. In 1926, when Arizona's lone Representative Carl Hayden resigned to run for the Senate, Lew made a bid for higher office...
When Franklin Roosevelt began looking for a Director of the Budget after the 1932 elections, Lew Douglas was a natural choice. He became a White House favorite. Said Eleanor Roosevelt at the Douglas, Ariz. airport dedication in 1933: "That name of Douglas is familiar to me. I see a man by that name having breakfast with my husband almost every...
...Roosevelt economy pledge at its face value and set to work paring the budget 25%. He slashed Government workers' pay 15%, sliced $400 million out of veterans' appropriations. When someone once protested that the District of Columbia Commissioners would be "very shocked" by a 25% appropriations cut, Lew replied: "These are shocking times...
...Marching Men." Lew lasted as Budget Director for just 18 months. When New Deal public works and pump-priming began, Lew Douglas knew he was licked. He went up to Hyde Park to protest. Replied Roosevelt: "But if we don't continue there will be revolutions and marching men." Lew disagreed. That day he handed in his resignation...