Word: moley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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POLITICAL NOTES Moley's Hymn...
...Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty" was a much-quoted squib in Washington during the first New Deal, when Professor Raymond Moley was indeed mighty in the Brain Trust. While Mr. Moley was serving Franklin Roosevelt and accumulating a reputation for vanity, he was also storing away a vast stock of personal notes, memoranda and unwritten recollections. Last week the written sum of it appeared in book form, a good 20 years before Franklin Roosevelt might normally have expected himself and his early administration to be thus exposed from within...
...Raymond Moley's After Seven Years* breaks all the rules. It is an unexampled chronicle of the years 1932-35 in U. S. Government (the last four of his seven years he was on the outside looking in); rich in broken confidences, intimate quotations, facts from the political bedroom. It could have come only from a bitter, frustrated, able man who once was close to the President. By letting the Saturday Evening Post serialize 100,000 of his 190,000 words, Raymond Moley did not make things any better with his outraged successors in the Janizariat. They belittle...
...Brain Truster Raymond Moley in the last of a series of Saturday Evening Post articles ("Five Years of Roosevelt-and After") last week related that in 1933, just before his inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt horrified his advisers by receiving two crackpot money theorists at Warm Springs, Ga. The President-elect huddled with them for two hours, had a grand time comparing heresies. "The hero of this adventure would be no stranger to the Roosevelt of today. There is the same physical courage, the same friendliness, the same susceptibility to the new and untried," reflected Mr. Moley...
...respect of foes as well as friends of Franklin Roosevelt. This is a striking fact, for unlike dozens of projects which Franklin Roosevelt has sponsored, CCC came not from the Brain Trust but from his own head. A good guess (by ex-Brain Truster Raymond Moley) is that it was planted there by Harvard's late, great Philosopher William James, who used to lecture Franklin Roosevelt & classmates on the morals...