Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This confronted the President with a formidable threat to his Cabinet. He had an answer to it at press conference last week. His answer was to announce with gusto that his new Attorney General, Frank Murphy-the man whom Mr. Dies last fall accused of being too soft on communistic sitdowners-would have Department of Justice agents investigate all charges of subversive activities made by Mr. Dies. Meanwhile, to keep from casting fuel on flames, Secretary Ickes was restrained from delivering an oratorical blast entitled "Loaded Dies...
...Farley: five New Yorkers in the Cabinet would really be too many, therefore the President must pass over Solicitor-General Bob Jackson. Mr. Garner's thorough approval of Michigan's rufous Governor-reject Frank Murphy settled the matter. With that approval, the man-who-was-soft-on-sit-down-strikers could be confirmed without trouble. So Mr. Murphy packed up in Lansing, took his brother George, his sister Marguerite Murphy Teahan and the Bible his mother gave him. Next day he presented himself in the President's study and was sworn in on two verses from Isaias...
...speak of, she still puts a song across. She can, for the hell of it, still turn a cartwheel or twirl a rope. She screws up her face and becomes Sarah Bernhardt, juggles her voice and becomes Ethel Barrymore. Or she just wanders around the stage dropping patter soft as daisies until bang! something sharp pops...
Hartford-Empire was therefore the pièce de résistance of last week's monopoly quiz and on the spot was its little known President Francis Goodwin Smith, whose mustache and bald head are in the best Peter Arno tradition. A soft-spoken New Englander of 57, President Smith is a self-made man who became general manager of Hartford-Empire's predecessor, Hartford-Fairmont Co., in 1915. He owns only a small block of stock in Hartford-Empire; most of it belongs to the Houghton family (Corning Glass Co.) and Beech-Nut Packing Co. Beech...
...nonsense soft with truth...