Word: meddlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disaster, made money for the Government by insisting, with a small-town banker's care, on rock-sound collateral before certifying a federal loan. Jones was dropped by Franklin D. Roosevelt as Commerce head in 1945 to make way for Henry Wallace. (He later called Wallace "an incompetent meddler with screwball ideas," denounced F.D.R. as a ruthless "total politician.") His lifelong passion was power ("I am a trustee for all of the people"), and in wielding it he made many enemies, who called him "Jesse James" and "Ten-Percent Jones." To his admirers he made democracy a safe risk...
...questions posed in 101 U.S. newspapers this week by a slick new comic strip, or "fiction panel," as the trade knows unfunny funnies. David Crane follows in the soapy footsteps of those other vocational do-gooders, Rex Morgan, M.D., Steve Roper, wholesome news photographer, and Mary Worth, motherly meddler...