Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Roosevelt's people in their freedom to be diverse and perverse and confused were afraid of their confusion. In their unease they perforce seized upon familiar precepts and standards whereby to judge themselves and their President. Precepts frequently stated, standards often used may become cliches. Crisis cliches are as likely as any others to be hardily true, are just as likely to be tired symbols of what once was truth. The people with their many voices and no single voice have tried and tested two crises cliches...
...President here & now should renounce a third term. So said Alfred M. Landon last fortnight; so said Michigan's isolationist, Republican Senator Vandenberg last week. "I heartily agree with the President that politics should be adjourned," Mr. Landon had said. "But I submit that he himself should make the first move in that direction by removing the biggest stumbling block of all ... namely, the third term issue...
...Louis Arthur Johnson. Their lairs might as well be in separate buildings. For Messrs. Woodring and Johnson never visit each other. Only when absolutely necessary do they speak to each other. When official business requires them to communicate, they do so in writing or through harried subordinates. Mr. Johnson despises Mr. Woodring. Mr. Woodring distrusts and despises Mr. Johnson, who for 27 months has gunned for Mr. Woodring...
...look at the war in his War Department, let the public have a peek, and, after a year's scandalous delay seemed to be about to end it. Up to last week he actually did no more about it than he had since he first turned mild little Mr. Woodring and big, explosive Mr. Johnson loose on each other...
...Kansas to be Assistant Secretary in 1933. When Secretary of War George H. Dern died in 1936, President Roosevelt was in the midst of a re-election campaign and the easy thing to do was up Harry Woodring. In 1937, having failed to work up much enthusiasm for mild Mr. Woodring, the President chose for Assistant Secretary a go-getting West Virginia lawyer and Legionnaire, Louis Johnson. Reports that Mr. Johnson had been promised his boss's job soon reached the newspapers and the boss. Secretary Woodring thereupon set himself to keeping his job and getting rid of Mr...