Word: moley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. While the Conference proper stewed over stabilization (see p.15), Comrade Litvinov bustled busily around London attending to three major outside jobs. In his thick Jewish English and even thicker French he bargained with statesmen of at least eight nations, closed a thumping deal with Professor Raymond Moley. The professor's wallet seemed to contain last week chiefly U. S. $20 bills. Short of English money, he once or twice was seen to borrow taxi fare. In his talks with Comrade Litvinov recognition by the U. S. of the Soviet Union was undoubtedly mentioned but the soft...
...wireless at the London Conference. The bomb-enunciation of a brand new reason for his refusal to stabilize currencies-exploded; seemed about to collapse the Conference instantly; and utterly astounded not only his Secretary of State Hull and the delegates of 65 nations but also his chief Braintruster, Raymond Moley...
...great subject of Russia, at least, Raymond Moley knew exactly what his President wanted him to do. In London he marched to Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinov, got a $4,000,000 U. S.-Soviet cotton deal (see p. 19). Recognition loomed...
...after the other by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain into another room. There they were rejected one after another by the U. S. Delegation's acting fiscal expert James P. Warburg. The eighth draft he passed. It was transmitted to the President by Professor Raymond Moley who proved, last week, a great disappointment to the Conference. Delegates had hoped they could get down to business with him and really negotiate. Instead Dr. Moley. bland and self-possessed, talked courteously with everyone but made clear that on all major issues the President must be consulted by cable...
This din Kansas' irrepressible William Allen White likened in London to a throb of "Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty." While the New York Times dubbed Almighty Moley a "Professor ex Machina," the wonder of his rise was neatly satirized by scathing Frank R. Kent in the Baltimore Sun: "It must, when he tucks himself in bed at night . . . seem to him like a dream. Sometimes he must ask himself: Is it real-am I Moley?' Less than a year ago, Dr. Moley was an obscure professor at Columbia University. . . . Previously he had been an instructor...