Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Head Janizaries. The early Brain Trust - Professors Moley, Tugwell, Warren, Berle, et al. - were economists. Among the Janizaries named above, not one is an economist. They are executives (Hopkins, Ickes), high-grade political go-betweens (Keenan, Niles, Son James) and smart lawyers (Jackson, Corcoran & Cohen). Among the President's...
Harry Hopkins, the social uplift zealot, remains today No. 1 Janizary but his position as head of WPA ties him down a bit. Jim Farley, converted last fortnight to the Purge-wherever it has a chance of working-remains Janizary No. 2 ex-officio, but his duties as Democratic National...
Thus closed the first of Franklin Roosevelt's major "Purge" primaries, on a note seemingly far removed from national issues. But by his "white supremacy" speeches Senator Smith reminded Southern Democrats of Franklin Roosevelt's fondness for Northern Negroes, his tacit approval of the Anti-Lynching bill. And...
Because Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Tydings both belong to the upper class their fight is the Purge's most bitter. Son of a marine engineer who worked at the Army's Aberdeen proving grounds, Millard Tydings became a mechanical engineer, studied law, practiced in Havre de Grace, enlisted...
The political title "Conservative Party," recommended to his foes by Franklin Roosevelt, was pre-empted in New York State last week by loud-mouthed Republican George Upton Harvey, Borough President of Queens. The Conservative platform: the Constitution and the Ten Commandments, to fight Communism. Fascism, Naziism. C.I.O., American Labor Party...