Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tour of 13 Midwestern and Western States to assay Roosevelt third-term sentiment. What he found was never published. He loyally saved it for Franklin Roosevelt's ear first. Weeks rolled by and Jim Farley was not asked for his information. Jim Farley did not like that. Then Mr. Roosevelt appointed brash, ambitious Paul McNutt, whom Jim Farley dislikes, to a post of honor and influence (Security Agency). Jim Farley boiled...
Starting as a sharp crack with the Court fight in 1937, the Democratic split had widened after Mr. Roosevelt's abortive Purge of 1938. The elections last autumn drove in fresh wedges so alarming to Mr. Roosevelt that he attempted no legislative program of his own in the 76th Congress except nonpartisan National Defense. Scornfully he challenged Congress to get a legislative program of its own. Slowly awkwardly but with a determination which mounted as Mr. Roosevelt opposed and sneered at it, the Congress did formulate and pursue such a program...
...President would have his way about the Court, McNary coolly visioned not only the bill's strangulation but the wide-open splitting of the Democratic Party and the eventual use of the conservative Democratic wing by Republican strategists in a practical coalition which could not merely harass Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal but stop it cold. The conception was a brilliant, deadly parallel to the late T. E. Lawrence's masterly guerilla tactics in the Arabian revolt in the desert...
...lark could be happier than John Edgar Hoover, chief policeman of the land, who has found in Attorney General Frank Murphy the perfect, implacable, incorruptible yet deferent boss. Mr. Murphy takes Mr. Hoover with him on major punitive expeditions, such as the one to Kansas City to "get" Boss Thomas J. Pendergast. Mr. Murphy encourages Mr. Hoover to step out vigorously on lines of his own, as any smart policeman likes...
Spies are the new line on which Mr. Hoover is stepping. In his annual report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, published last week, he stated these remarkable figures on his spy cases...