Word: moley
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...above a domed forehead. His nose is long and straight between round, ruddy cheeks, over a full-sized chin and small mouth. Mostly he listened but when he did speak between puffs of a cigaret, his voice was pleasantly rich and low. almost a diffident drawl. He was Raymond Moley. Officially he was there as an Assistant Secretary of State. Personally he was there because, as head of the "Brain Trust," he is President Roosevelt's closest, most intimate adviser. The President calls him "Ray." He calls the President "Governor." His job was not only to stoke the discussions...
Ranged around to help Dr. Moley help the President was a corps of U. S. sub-experts, chief among them William Christian Bullitt, veteran of the Paris Peace Conference and unofficial man-about-Europe whom President Roosevelt fortnight ago put back into the State Department as a special assistant to Secretary Hull; James Paul Warburg, able banking son of an able banking father; and Charles William Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., a minor member of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust'' during the cam- paign. James Warburg's father was the late Paul Moritz Warburg, member...
...Glass wrote his Federal Reserve Act. William Jennings Bryan handled his foreign relations. William Gibbs McAdoo ran the Treasury. Franklin Roosevelt is a practical politician who has surrounded himself with college professors to help him work his executive will. The oldest, closest and most trusted of these is Raymond Moley. He is not a great man but he is a powerful one. His influence on the Administration is felt far beyond his nominal job of Assistant Secretary of State. Through his ear is the shortest and swiftest route to the heart of the White House. He does not make...
Before he was Governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt spotted Professor Moley on the State Crime Commission, decided he would be a useful citizen to keep within calling distance. Mr. Roosevelt was impressed with his ability to assemble political facts; liked his fresh political outlook. Here was no cut & dried college professor wedded to the past but rather an agreeable, cultured man who was itching for a chance to put his academic theories on government into prac tice, a man of thoughtful independence who could admire Tammany's Boss Murphy and still vote for Socialist Norman Thomas...
...Moley-Thomas bill required the President to do nothing, but it gave him enough power to knock the dollar down to 50? or less if he sees fit. Assuming that he uses up to the hilt all the authority Congress is about to vote him, the following things will occur...