Word: moley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of last month Vincent Astor and Raymond Moley shuttled between Hyde Park and Manhattan. To the President, his richest friend and his ablest adviser brought word that Business was developing a bad case of nerves at the New Deal's uncertainties. Back in town Editor Moley wrote inspired reassurances in Today and Mr. Astor closeted himself with one tycoon after another to relate how things were going to come out all right in the end. The biggest news that Mr. Astor brought back from the throne room was that President Roosevelt was going to make Bernard Mannes ("Bernie...
...Kent's story of 15 hectic months in Washington many people have their exits and their entrances and most in their time play many parts. Senator Carter Glass "in a class by himself," is cast as hero. Professor Moley plays clown. General Hugh Johnson undertakes a comic Falstaffian role, "chief name caller" of the Administration, roaring about "tom-tom beaters," "witch dancers," "hobgoblin seers," "chiselers," "social Neanderthalers," threatening to "crack down" while NRA goes to pieces under him. Professor Tugwell is the chief antagonist, marshal of the forces seeking a socialistic state. He is a respected enemy until, during...
Railroadmen were cheered last week, however, by what they took to be White House recognition of their plight. Having lately spent a week-end with President Roosevelt aboard the Sequoia, Editor Raymond Moley led off his main editorial in last week's issue of Today: "No friend of the New Deal is likely to grow enthusiastic over the progress of its railroad policies." And after listing all the railroad's woes, Editor Moley concluded: "There are many complaints from business, these days, that hardly stand examination. But these of the railroads are unquestionably an exception. . . . The Administration has a railroad...
Devoutly hoping that Mr. Moley's kind words really did mean a shift in the Washington wind, railroadmen nevertheless gave the highball to their long-awaited petition for rate increases. The request filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission last week called for a rise of as much as 10% on a vast and complex schedule of goods. If granted, the increases would yield about $170,000,000 of the $293,000,000 which railroadmen say they must have to meet their swelling bills...
...speech of Huey Long is "a splendid example of the lower middle classes of the Lower Mississippi Valley." Raymond Moley speaks purest Ohioan. Franklin Roosevelt is "a fine example of an educated American," using few localisms and little of the vestigial British accent typical of his class...