Word: moley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Roosevelt and Secretary Mills, childhood friends, exchanged "Hello, Frank-Hello, Ogden." Professor Raymond Moley, Roosevelt adviser on whose arm the President-elect had been leaning, was introduced. The four men settled themselves in red chairs around a small mahogany table. President Hoover lighted a cigar, Governor Roosevelt a cigaret. Down from their gilt frames gazed Jefferson, Madison, Adams and Grant upon the first White House meeting of a President-reject and a President-elect...
...White House, adding that he would like to bring to the meeting one personal adviser. That was all right with the President who said he would have Secretary of the Treasury Mills at his elbow. "Good-by, Mr. President." "Good-by, Governor." Governor Roosevelt's adviser is Raymond Moley, 46-year-old professor of public law at Columbia University. An expert on criminal procedure rather than international economics, Professor Moley is a stocky, thin-haired pedagog who began his career as an Ohio schoolteacher. As Governor of New York, Al Smith first discovered him as a useful citizen...
Roosevelt's Moley Sirs...
...note in TIME, Sept. 19, an account of next-President Roosevelt's junket to the West and the remark that "Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley, head of the 'brain trust' which supplies the Governor with economic data," was on the campaign train. I studied political science under Professor Moley at Columbia some eight years ago and thought him shrewd, honest, fearless. His work as head of the Cleveland crime commission (about 1923) brought him wide fame and the attention of a number of Cleveland thugs who waylaid him one night, fortunately without too serious results, because...
...preparation began weeks ago in Albany. Baltimore & Ohio's Daniel Willard, Union Pacific's Carl Gray and William Averell Harriman had conferred with him on the subject. American Car & Foundry's William Woodin had contributed ideas as had Bernard Baruch, Wall Street's "White Eagle." Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley of the Roosevelt ''brain trust" had done his share of advising and researching. Circulated in advance among railroad men and bankers interested in rail securities, an early draft had received wide if silent commendation. The final address represented the composite thought of financiers, managers, employes and investors...