Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas' shaggy-maned Tom Connally, minor statesman, had a painful afternoon. As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, it was his job to get Senate confirmation for four Presidential appointments to the State Department: Under Secretary Joseph C. Grew, Assistant Secretaries Will Clayton, Nelson Rockefeller and Archibald MacLeish. It should have been a routine matter, but the pesky Senate suddenly balked, stubbornly insisted on mulling the whole thing over...
...Harry. Few had any criticism of Joseph Grew, a trained and tried career diplomat. But the big-money backgrounds of Businessmen Clayton and Rockefeller offered demagogues (and the left-wing press) a rare opportunity to orate against Wall Street. Anti-New Dealers saw a free chance to twang Poet MacLeish over the head with his own lyre...
...Band? The Senate voted (37-to-27) to throw the nominations back into committee. Tom Connally, deciding that the hearings might as well be open, engaged the huge, chill Senate caucus room (capacity: 400). Secretaries went hastily to work in the Senate Library, poring over volumes of MacLeish verse, culling choice lines for Senators-who had been speaking bad prose all their lives, without knowing it-to chomp aloud at the hearings...
...Archibald MacLeish, 52, poet and Congressional Librarian, to supervise State's public and cultural relations...
...later years, correspondents were often surprised to find that Woollcott had never outgrown his love for renaming both his friends and himself. "Lamb of God," he would begin a letter to Noel Coward. Poet Archibald Macleish he addressed as "Ambrose-Son-of-Heaven." Sometimes he signed himself "Pumblechook...