Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Wallace, 51, Secretary of Agriculture, author of Corn and Corn Growing, onetime editor of Wallace's Farmer, has a reputation as the dreamer of the Roosevelt Administration. He is, says Arthur Krock, "a high-minded, thoughtful man, a progressive, one of the best writers in the New Deal, compassionate and intelligent." But, adds Mr. Krock-like many an observer before him-the Secretary has no sense of timing. When the slaughtered pigs are better forgotten, according to all New Deal strategists, he delivers a carefully phrased explanation of the policy that led to their slaughtering; addressing restive, hard...
Last week Secretary Wallace did it again. In Berkeley, Calif., preparing to dedicate a new Department of Agriculture laboratory, to attend the Western Conference on Governmental Problems and other Bay district events, he broke the truce on partisan politics for which President Roosevelt asked when war broke out in Europe (TIME, Sept. 11). It was eight in the morning, and the reporters were sleepy. Whether or not they exercised their fatal fascination, the Secretary soon found himself saying: "The war situation obviously makes it clear that the President's talents and training are necessary to steer the country, domestically...
More explosively a reminder this week was a sudden blast against a Roosevelt third term from, of all people, John L. Lewis, chairman of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. At the same time Lewis indicated his personal 1940 choice would be Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler. To many this seemed a political "kiss of death" for Mr. Wheeler...
...wish he'd go away." Ordinarily irritated at reporters' prodding about the third term, generally inviting them to go stand in the corner, put on the dunce cap, or merely rewarding them with a testy glance if they so much as asked about it, President Roosevelt last week was jovial too. A reporter popped up with another jingle...
Last week President Roosevelt also: > Discussed the refugee problem with Refugee Experts Myron Taylor, Paul van Zeeland, former Belgian Premier, reportedly urged surveys based on the possibility that 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 persons may be deprived of homes and countries by the war. > Sent a warm message to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü on modern Turkey's 16th anniversary celebration. > Rapped the work of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc., in its attempt to adjust Latin-American defaulted bonds held by U. S. investors, refused to comment on whether...