Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NORMAN D. FORSTER...
...called for Al Smith for Mayor. For President of the Board of Aldermen he named Socialist Norman Thomas. For New York District Attorney he proposed Frederic René ("Fritz") Coudert Jr., smooth young Republican from the silk-stocking district. He resurrected onetime Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan for Borough President of Queens and balanced him with Louis Waldman, New York State Socialist chairman, for Borough President of The Bronx. Mayor O'Brien was tactfully reserved his old job as Surrogate...
...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, a man who could say without cynicism: "Practical politics is dependent upon an ability to guess accurately which way to act." Raymond Moley is not an economist, nor is he a lawyer. Yet Mr. Roosevelt, after his presidential nomination, found him highly useful in both fields. He became the first member...
...Government control it better than the French or Ger- man Governments had done? All these things occurring 4,000 mi. away were of vital interest to Europe. Near at hand there was one man who in two brief scenes made things much clearer: U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis. Geneva. To the interminable arguments of the League's Disarmament Conference came white-haired Mr. Davis with an important statement. Announcing U. S. approval of the MacDonald Disarmament Plan (TIME, March 27),* he added: "Part one of the British plan is designed to co-ordinate the efforts...
...thorny implications of Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor at his alma mater Haverford College, Author Wright (real name: William Reitzel) worked in Cuba a year five...