Word: mans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Wallace, 51, Secretary of Agriculture, author of Corn and Corn Growing, onetime editor of Wallace's Farmer, has a reputation as the dreamer of the Roosevelt Administration. He is, says Arthur Krock, "a high-minded, thoughtful man, a progressive, one of the best writers in the New Deal, compassionate and intelligent." But, adds Mr. Krock-like many an observer before him-the Secretary has no sense of timing. When the slaughtered pigs are better forgotten, according to all New Deal strategists, he delivers a carefully phrased explanation of the policy that led to their slaughtering; addressing restive, hard...
More jovial was the response to Mr. Wallace. Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Tal-burt summed it up by picturing a beaming figure called Third Term perched on a stairway, to the consternation of Conservative Democrats below, and quoting New York University Professor Mearns's jingle about the little man who wasn't there: "He wasn't there again today: Oh, how I wish he'd go away." Ordinarily irritated at reporters' prodding about the third term, generally inviting them to go stand in the corner, put on the dunce cap, or merely rewarding them with...
...brass-knuckle debate. Until the last chap ter, the Senate's had been a different and duller story. For three stodgy weeks that body had shifted uneasily about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words of the Great Debate...
Into office came Edward M. Heath, machine man, as first assistant attorney general. His first act was to appear before a three-judge court, beg that a certain hearing be postponed for two days until he could familiarize himself with the details of the case...
...Paraphrasing Charles C. Pinckney's famed "Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute!" Harry Woodring cried last week: "Every man and every dollar necessary for the defense of America, but not one dollar to fight the wars of other nations...