Word: moley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While he held the post of Assistant Secretary of State, Raymond Moley appeared to be Franklin Roosevelt's most affectionate Brain Truster. Relegated to unofficial advising in the columns of Vincent Astor's Today, Editor Moley has lately evidenced a decided mind of his own. To the tasty editorial sauce he pours on New Deal objectives, he has begun to add strong dashes of vinegar for New Deal performance...
This blast against President Roosevelt's proposed tax on undistributed corporation profits (TIME, March 9, 16) issued last week not from a Republican diehard or frantic corporation executive, but from Today's Editor Raymond Moley, once officially and still unofficially a potent ganglion in the collective Roosevelt brain...
...Minister Stanley Baldwin conferred with frail old U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham and immediately afterward with hale old Banker J. P. Morgan. Supercilious comment in The City, London's Wall Street, was that most of President Roosevelt's fiscal emissaries to Europe, such as Professor Raymond Moley, have been "neither known nor trusted here" and that if the President now has any proposals to make to His Majesty's Government he could not have done better than to entrust them to Mr. Morgan who is "a well-known and well-liked figure...
...receiver, Editor Raymond Moley was presented with a bust of himself by the management for having operated Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis for a year at a profit. Asked if the cocktail lounge were responsible for having turned the St. Regis' ledgers from red to black, the one-time Brain Truster replied: "Lincoln once sold liquor in his general store, but I think my establishment is much classier." With a $5,000,000 mortgage on the property, Mr. Moley's good friend Vincent Astor year ago threw the St. Regis into receivership (TIME, June 18, 1934), last...
...last session of Congress President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to prohibit export of tin-bearing scrap. Scrap dealers expect new agitation for an embargo at this session, are confident that President Roosevelt will oppose it because he is trying to develop export trade. But last fortnight, Raymond Moley, the President's friend and counselor, published as the lead article in his magazine Today a sharply critical analysis of Japan's scrap buying by Ray Tucker, longtime Washington newshawk. Reporter Tucker concluded that Japan's demand for scrap was unmistakably for the purpose of 1) modernizing her army...