Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only the hustings but U. S. history seemed to be in Franklin Roosevelt's mind as, in his ten-car, air-cooled special train, he rolled westward out of Washington last week. Politician Roosevelt was out to whoop it up for his supporters in this autumn's Congressional elections. At the same time Statesman Roosevelt, midway of his second and (perhaps) last term as U. S. President, was out to impress his name yet deeper in The People's memory. Until Congress adjourned, polls of public opinion had shown New Deal popularity on the wane-not Franklin...
Into Oklahoma rumbled the Roosevelt special. There, silver-crowned Senator Elmer Thomas is engaged in a three-cornered fight with oil-rich Governor Ernest Marland and Indian-blooded Representative Gomer Smith. To potent Governor Marland the President was most polite. Upon Gomer Smith, loud exploiter of Townsend Plan promises, he cracked down by inference, quoting Roosevelt I on the "lunatic fringe." Senator Thomas was allowed to ride on the Presidential train (but so was Governor Marland), was called "my old friend," described as "of enormous help ... in keeping me advised as to the needs of the State...
...when political necessities arise. The coming national election will be his fourth as an insider, and Mr. Hopkins has had time to learn a lot at the knees of Franklin Roosevelt and Jim Farley. Evidence of his political maturity was that he did not stand in the way of special WPA pay raises so opportunely given in Kentucky and Oklahoma last month. In these two States the primary opponents of Senators Barkley and Elmer Thomas had pointed at local WPA wages lower than those paid in neighboring States, shaming these two Roosevelt favorites for not doing better by the home...
...charge of the department, assigned to work out a program of flexible freight rates for farm products. Because of the present state of U. S. railroading. no immediate demands for lower rates will be made. Dr. Dewey, sedate, brown-haired, 37, got his Ph.D. at University of Michigan, made special studies of transportation and public utilities, has lately been chief of the division of transportation for the Bureau of the Census and Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce...
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