Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt will permit his secretariat and close advisers to write for publication. McNaught Syndicate last week announced that Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley, head of the "Brain Trust," would supply a weekly 800-word article entitled "'The State of The Nation...
...hair above a domed forehead. His nose is long and straight between round, ruddy cheeks, over a full-sized chin and small mouth. Mostly he listened but when he did speak between puffs of a cigaret, his voice was pleasantly rich and low. almost a diffident drawl. He was Raymond Moley. Officially he was there as an Assistant Secretary of State. Personally he was there because, as head of the "Brain Trust," he is President Roosevelt's closest, most intimate adviser. The President calls him "Ray." He calls the President "Governor." His job was not only to stoke...
...Carter Glass wrote his Federal Reserve Act. William Jennings Bryan handled his foreign relations. William Gibbs McAdoo ran the Treasury. Franklin Roosevelt is a practical politician who has surrounded himself with college professors to help him work his executive will. The oldest, closest and most trusted of these is Raymond Moley. He is not a great man but he is a powerful one. His influence on the Administration is felt far beyond his nominal job of Assistant Secretary of State. Through his ear is the shortest and swiftest route to the heart of the White House. He does not make...
...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 of the Democratic campaign "Brain Trust." He helped Mr. Roosevelt write his speeches. He coined stinging phrases for him (e. g., "industrial...
Professor Berle is the third member of the Roosevelt campaign "brain trust" to find a berth inside the Administration and like the other two (Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell) he was drafted from Columbia University. Son of a liberal Boston clergyman, Adolf Berle Jr. arrived at Harvard at the age of 13, was widely publicized as an infant prodigy. He wore knickerbockers about the Yard up to his senior year. Graduated with honors at 17, he took a master's degree. At 21 he received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School...