Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establishing substantial information about private banking on which to base legislation. With time to search and prepare, he never dropped a question until he got his answer. Yet it was not Banker Morgan who supplied him with most of his facts but Partner George Whitney, tall, handsome, slick-haired brother of President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Whitney (known on Wall Street as "Icicle") gave the committee the impression that he knew more about the House of Morgan than anyone else...
...David Steuer, slick little crook-defender, very quiet, very polite, very imperturbable, sitting at Mr. Mitchell's side...
...swept the U. S. off the gold standard and let the dollar coast down toward the depreciated currency levels of 34 foreign powers. Domestic economy controlled the President's action but there was hardly a country on earth that did not see in his gold embargo order a slick trick in world finance. This opinion was intensified by the fact that he had moved only two days before beginning his White House conferences preparatory to the World Economic Conference...
...stave off a vote, decided to stand and fight the currency inflationists. That meant standing and fighting one man-John William Elmer Thomas, senior Senator from Oklahoma, who for two years has been the ringleader of Congressional inflationists. This tall (6 ft. 2 in.) well-groomed Senator with slick, grey hair above a round, solemn face was born in Indiana 56 years ago. Graduated from De Pauw University, he went to Oklahoma at the turn of the Century, practiced law, plunged into state politics. He served two inconspicuous terms in the House before going to the Senate...
Though it was not his doing, such a break during his first month in office heartened Lewis Williams Douglas, President Roosevelt's slick-haired, squint-eyed young Director of the Budget. The 1933 budget is a hangover from the Hoover Administration, a Republican inheritance beyond Democratic repair. Most of the Roosevelt economies will not show up until the 1934 budget (effective July 1) and upon them Budgeteer Douglas is concentrating with a heartless zeal that has bureaucratic Washington by the ears. Though he shakes his head mournfully and talks about his "sad job" which wrecks the hopes and happiness...