Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonus Senator Robinson refused to dodge. The vital vote was not on the President's veto but, before that, on the choice between the Bonus-plain (on which a veto might not have been sustained) and the Bonus-with-greenbacks (on which a veto could be sustained). Leader Robinson and a little band of devoted Roosevelt followers grimly voted for what they least of all wanted-green-backs-so that the veto could be sustained...
Loyalty & Leadership. These examples of leadership sum up to about this: Joseph Taylor Robinson is a fine, hard-boiled top sergeant, always on the job, never sparing himself, short on finesse, but long on loyalty. Gruff, bad-tempered, wrinkled-faced, he has the voice of an angry bull and an equal amount of courage. But when it comes to wheedling buck privates who can no longer be driven, to using astute finagling to bring men into line, then Franklin Roosevelt has to rely on men like Mississippi's artful Pat Harrison and shrewd Vice President Garner...
Save for the discomforts incident to following such a versatile leader as Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Robinson can congratulate himself today on one of the most comfortable places in public life. Some two months of the year he and his wife spend in their rambling, old-fashioned frame house in Little Rock. He also finds time to travel abroad as a statesman, a taste which he acquired from attending Interparliamentary Union conferences in England and serving as delegate to the London Disarmament Conference in 1930. For fun he likes nothing better than to go fishing and shooting (he is a crack...
...There is veiled talk of other candidates : politics being as sectional as they are in the U. S., the more a politician changes from a big man at home to a big man in the country at large, the weaker grows his political backing at home. Thus from Senator Robinson's standpoint Little Rock is no longer Gibraltar. If he wants to serve another six years in the Senate his advisers tell him he will probably have to take off his cutaway in 1936 and hump himself through a lively campaign...
...Soldier Robinson, however, may never participate in another Arkansas campaign. His consuming ambition is to sit upon the U. S. Supreme Court. And most of wise Washington believes that President Roosevelt has already promised him the first vacancy on that high bench, as a suitable reward for nearly a generation of able Congressional service...