Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardly a care on his mind, Harry Truman had left his spacious, picture-lined office in the Senate Office Building, walked over to visit Speaker Sam Rayburn in the Capitol. Others had already gathered in the Speaker's office: White House Assistant James M. Barnes and House Parliamentarian Lew Deschler. It was the kind of company Harry Truman liked. None of them was a policymaker from the high levels of the Roosevelt Administration. In his two and a half months as Vice President, Harry Truman had not been invited to sit in with the policymakers; he had continued...
Inevitably, the first bloom wore off. Many a disciple, alarmed by the New Deal's hunger for power, and by the growing debt, broke with Roosevelt: men like Raymond Moley, the Blue Eagle's swash buckling Hugh Johnson, Lew Douglas. Republicans spoke words like "regimentation," "bureaucracy"; many a thoughtful man repeated them...
...Lew Douglas, now back at his job as president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, is no wild-eyed New Dealer, and never was. His reasoning: private U.S. enterprise cannot operate a big U.S. merchant marine without Government subsidy. The cost of subsidizing a fleet of even 20,000,000 tons would be upwards of $200,000,000 a year, would put the U.S. hip-deep in the shipping business. Such commercial entanglements, said Douglas, lead governments to nationalism and "its natural offspring the totalitarian state." Such a tremendous involvement in shipping would inevitably lead the U.S. into...
...remaining 10,000,000 tons (to be used chiefly in coastwise trade) would be a sufficient backlog. And on the tonnage sold or leased, the U.S. should tie enough strings to make it available if needed for another war. But it will never be needed, Lew Douglas argued, if his program is carried...
...pops awake every morning at 7, breakfasts an hour later, has a briefing on the previous days' operations at 9:15. The rest of his day is spent in conference or in driving or flying along the front with one of his two aides, Majors "Chet" Hansen and "Lew" Bridge, while his able chief of staff, Major General Leven C. Allen, keeps the operations machinery spinning. After dinner Bradley usually sees a movie (e.g., Janie, Heavenly Body, Bride by Mistake, Dragon Seed) screened by his aides in his quarters, pecks out a letter to his wife on his portable...