Word: moley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Raymond Moley, 46-year-old Professor of Public Law at Columbia University, stepped into the State Department as an Assistant Secretary on March 4, he was widely acclaimed as President Roosevelt's closest, most trusted economic adviser, the head Brain Truster who had shaped his winning campaign, a mighty power in the New Deal. When after six months he stepped out of the sub-Cabinet last week, the country hardly needed to be told...
...Hull, as chairman of the U. S. Delegation, sailed away so hopefully for London. Then as an internationalist he was about to have his innings. But the President's long-range handling of the Conference, his refusal to consider currency stabilization, his dispatch of Assistant Secretary of State Moley to London all combined to lacerate Secretary Hull's feelings and start reports of his resignation. The Conference had failed and the President's nationalist policy had struck...
Secretary Hull's mollification was made easier for the President by the temporary-transfer, three days prior, of Dr. Moley from the State Department to the Justice Department. Internationalist Hull and Nationalist Moley have made poor bedfellows at the State Department. President Roosevelt turned his chief Brain Truster over to Attorney General Cummings for a month to conduct a survey of crime in general, kidnapping and racketeering in particular. Dr. Moley's new assignment was entirely logical inasmuch as he had made his principal pre-election reputation as a crime researcher in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri...
...Trial juries melt before him. At Prague three years ago he reduced 7,000 Czechoslovakians to tears. On the platform he grows warmly evangelical about anything from the psychology of prison reform to the beauties of rare glass. A good though less vociferous friend of his is Professor Raymond Moley, another "Ohio boy" interested in crime and justice. Assistant Secretary of State Moley was largely responsible for Harry Payer's appointment to a neighboring berth in the department...
...Patterson & Mr. Moley have since made...