Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have no political aspirations. I am going to carry out my administration as I think it should be done. I am not given to suspicion of other people's motives. Suspicion, you know, is the shadow of a man's own soul. If there have been suspicion and implications of bad faith, they do not come from...
...supposed to have suggested that General Johnson go to Europe to study recovery measures. The General rapped back: "You're trying to ease me out like George Peek." Then he stalked angrily back to his office. Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson, his onetime stenographer but now his ultraloyal assistant and shadow at NRA headquarters, urged him to make a "dramatic exit," for Business would surely rally to him if he did so. So the General dictated a two-and-a-half page letter. By midnight it was done and on its way to the White House by messenger. The President, reading...
...went through the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School, entered his father's law office?and promptly became disgusted with the world around him. To him the discovery that large corporations play politics and get favors from local politicians was a terrible shock. He wrote a book, The Shadow Men. (In 1934 it would have been Forgotten Men.) When Theodore Roosevelt campaigned in 1912, Richberg went into politics as a Bull Mooser. He went in again in 1924 as a supporter of La Follette, but he did not back a winning political combination until he went to Washington last...
...father, is an easy mark for Nicholas' charm. The Black Sheep finds it convenient to help himself to money and valuable articles lying about in this trusting circle. He always needs money, not only for himself and Lizzie, whom he adores, but also for one Abel Mandez, his pursuing shadow, an old partner in crime, who plays a Mr. Hyde to his impersonation of Dr. Jekyll...
...Leader's" shadow, Reichsbischof Müller jammed his entire program through the Synod by a vote of 42 to 12. The meek churchmen even abolished their Church flag: a purple cross on a white field. To correspondents the triumphant Reichsbischof cried: "We must now build for our Leader a really strong Church...