Word: salaryless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kitchen. Washington under Harding, Herter recalls, was "like a dirty kitchen, where cockroaches abound." Herter quit, moved to Boston as co-owner and salaryless co-editor of the old magazine of opinion, the Independent, once graced by Henry Ward Beecher. Active as a Republican, he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1930, became its speaker in 1939, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Named chairman of a Select House Committee on Foreign Aid, he led his committee abroad on a survey trip, laid much of the groundwork for the Marshall Plan legislation. So strict...
...brought Herter to Washington as his secretary. But Chris had nothing but contempt for the Harding Administration ("Washington is a dirty kitchen," he wrote later, "where cockroaches abound"), and he began to look around for a way out. The way came when he moved to Boston to become the salaryless co-editor and co-owner of Henry Ward Beecher's old magazine of opinion, the Independent...