Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...historians of the period, Sherwood himself was on the inside track in World War II. He was head of the Overseas Branch of OWI; as one of Roosevelt's speech writers for five years, he frequently lived at the White House, heard plenty and knew F.D.R.'s mind. Besides being on the inside track, he had a head start: the use of 40 filing cabinets of papers left by Hopkins...
...Roosevelt and Hopkins, yet it is a bias frequently dissolved by candor. There is enough in these pages to explain why Hopkins was feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous . . . He's just a highminded Holy Roller in a semi-religious...
...bedroom was his office. In a sloppy dressing gown, Hopkins would traipse through the White House corridors to consult Roosevelt or Churchill. Usually he was miserably ill (cancer, ulcers, numerous complications), but at a word from F.D.R. he was on his way. He usually knew the President's mind so well on any given subject that specific instructions were unnecessary (Roosevelt to Stalin: "I ask you to treat Mr. Hopkins with the identical confidence you would feel if you were talking directly...
...That F.D.R. Could Sleep. Sherwood makes it clear that there was but one unanimous choice for Supreme Commander of the invasion: George Marshall. It was F.D.R. who, first supporting Marshall, changed his mind. He then overrode Stalin and Churchill to name Eisenhower. Roosevelt explained his change of mind to Marshall : "I could not sleep at night with you out of the country." At the time, the country would undoubtedly have slept better had F.D.R. made what seemed the stronger choice...
...Schary is contemplating revenge for the rough handling he got from RKO's crusty new boss, Howard Hughes, he can forget it. For "Station West," one of the last pictures Schary made at RKO before his collision with Hughes, will certainly accomplish any dark purpose he may have in mind. It stinks and it will make Mr. Hughes squirm like a rattlesnake on a lot stove...