Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of the Commissioner of Agriculture is the best example of his poor judgment; an experienced executive was replaced by a grocery salesman from Fitchburg who got the job for getting Curley in the Grange and for making him an honorary member of the Mashpeo Indian tribe. Payson Smith, such a noted educator that Harvard hired him on the spot, was dismissed as Commissioner of Education in favor of a small-town Superintendent of Schools. Thomas H. Green, to whom Curley himself once referred to as one of "the James brothers" was made head of the Civil Service. Case workers...
...Curley's name because nationally known when he shrewdly backed Franklin D. Roosevelt in the national Democratic convention and then campaigned vigorously for him in the election race. However farsighted, the action was politically dishonorable; Alfred E. Smith, Roosevelt's opponent for the nomination was an enormous favorite in Boston. So popular was Smith that for months after Curley's break with him, the Boston people wouldn't turn out to hear Curley speak. In that year, the State democratic convention sent Governor Ely as head of the delegation to Chicago to vote for Smith's nomination...
...Roosevelt at a luncheon at the home of Colonel Edward M. House ("the president-maker") in Magnolia, Mass. After the luncheon, when the group faced the press, Curley told the newsmen point-blank that it was going to nominate Roosevelt for President, But, so strong was Massachusetts feeling for Smith, that Curley was not even elected to the delegation to the convention. Instead, he went to Chicago alone and there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard, and sat as their leader when...
CRIMSON'S "After the Trial" editorial of October 20, raises a very timid and blushing doubt on the constitutionality of the Smith Act and goes on to question loyalty case procedure. It isn't that it makes much difference whether Communists are jailed or federal workers fired for political beliefs; the big issue is whether everything is done with "procedural safeguards." A yawn from the writer and the piece is done...
...advice of his editorial board-the Eastman School of Music's Howard Hanson, Columbia University's Douglas Moore and Child Psychologist Randolph Smith-he also started putting out the kind of music children didn't know they would like until they tried it. He began to get reactions from seven-and eight-year-olds such as "I like Stravinsky . . . You take nice jumps and land on your toes." As fast as Grenell could press them, kids all over the U.S. began devouring such nutritional morsels as Haydn's Toy Symphony, Mozart's Country Dances, Liadov...