Word: moley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group know that Mr. Richberg is not to follow Raymond Moley, Lewis Douglas, General Johnson, and Rexford Tugwell into that attractive, but non-political, circle of his-beens? He does seem quite impressed with being assistant-president, so impressed even that he may soon find himself in a satin-lined ash can. Other trial balloons have soared gracefully over the capital before but treacherous currents usually carry them to Utopia, and strange as it may seem, their maker at the time. So we have given up gazing at these colored balls and their tinsel instigators, and wait for the word...
...thought of some importance. After he had eaten luncheon in his private car, Mr. Roosevelt's advisers gathered around the table. Of the five who were there to counsel him on the responsibilities he was to assume, several were quite obscure. There was a balloon-jowled professor, Raymond Moley, and a handsome but obscure young doctor (Ph. D.), Rexford Guy Tugwell. There also was a man with some reputation in business circles, the president of American Car & Foundry Co., Mr. William Woodin. One adviser whom the public might have recognized was Diplomat Norman Hezekiah Davis. The other member...
...devotion to Franklin Roosevelt has its obverse in that he does his jealous best to keep others from growing equally close to his idol. Other close Presidential friends such as Lewis Douglas and Raymond Moley have come and gone (and sometimes come again) but Louis Howe has maintained himself in a place unique and apart, the President's closest counselor...
...such congresses favor: a balanced budget, the gold standard, a modified NRA, an end to government competition with business. But genuine economic articulation came not from the practicing-economists who were delegates to the Congress but from the practicing politicians of the New Deal?Daniel Roper, Raymond Moley; Donald Richberg...
Perfectly delighted was Professor Moley with the quaint personification of gold employed by Boss Calles in explaining Mexico's "entire freedom from the gold standard." Said the general grimly: "We marched gold out, stood it up against the wall and executed it!" The silver peso, declares Professor Moley, "is practically pegged to the American dollar. Mexico is prepared to follow the dollar, wherever it goes...