Word: moley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Raymond Moley returned this autumn from a two-hour conversation with General Plutarco Elias Calles, Chief of the National Revolution and "Mussolini of Mexico." In Today, considered President Roosevelt's mouthpiece by Mexicans, Professor Moley wrote: "It may be taken for granted that Calles will dominate affairs for years to come. . . . After generations of misrule, exploitation and revolution, the federation of 28 Mexican states is on the way toward recovery...
...remained for Professor Moley to pry out of taciturn Boss Calles the Chief's own definition of his new and square deal. "Trying to sum up," wrote Today's Moley, "I asked him whether it [Mexico] could not be described as a republic, in which authority is exercised by government through the will of the people and in which government, in its relation to the economic system, is a regulating force rather than a paternalistic owner, directing and partially controlling capitalistic enterprise. He agreed with this interpretation...
...truster, is the most quoted magazine in the U. S. Hating though they do to mention a magazine, newspapers quote it every week. That such luxurious free publicity should have brought Today only 59,000 circulation in its first year is a baffling fact. But last week Editor Raymond Moley proved that, if he is not a successful editor, he is an honest one. His subject was California's Upton ("Epic") Sinclair. Had he aped all bigwig Democrats-Senator William Gibbs ("McAdoodle") McAdoo or James Aloysius Farley or even No. 1 Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt-he would have scratched...
Meanwhile, honest Editor Moley has also become the most famed Manhattan diner-&-winer. Last week he was busy explaining that he had not been dining secretly with business leaders as the President's contact man, but solely as part of his journalistic job. Said he: "The impressions I gather from my various contacts I make use of in weekly editorials, and these can be read by members of the Administration. In this way and no other am I serving as a means of contact...
...Known Moley dinner companions: Bruce Barton; William Thomas Grant of Grant stores; Andrew J. Maloney of Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron; James Cash Penney of Penney stores; Harry C. Beaver of Worthington Pump...