Word: public
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent and informative article on Paul McNutt in TIME, July 10, you overlook one fact of great importance; a fact which ought to be understood by the American people, since Mr. McNutt is already so much in the public eye and is so ambitious for the Presidency...
...treaty with Japan. Gallup polls showing 51% of the voters in favor of clamping down on war materials for Japan assured Mr. Roosevelt that this was a popular thing to do. His own bent in international power politics made it desirable. He was glad to get out of the public doghouse...
Ashurst on public speaking: "A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information." On John Garner: "You play a straight oftener than almost any other man I know." On consistency: "But there never has been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency." On himself: "I suffer from cacoethes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, and from vanity . . . and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics. ... I am pachydermatous. ... I am a veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano on behalf of Democratic principles...
...ready to say whom he wants to see as the anti-New Deal candidate in 1940, Wendell Willkie has already picked his New Deal man: Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose ability as a public leader he admires, although he thinks it beclouded by vindictiveness...
...this surplus is no comfort to Chairman Crowley. He wrote an indictment of the present state of the U. S. banking business: for 75 years the ratio of bank capital to assets and to deposits has declined. Now the number of banker-owned dollars which protect the public's deposit dollars is at a new low-about...