Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, McAdoo rarely makes a speech (his voice is high, squeaky) except on behalf of his pet project: no Panama Canal tolls for intercoastal shipping. In Washington, he is considered a greatly diminished public figure, but still a shrewd political opportunist. Popularly supposed to telephone the White House before casting a vote, he has voted for: Emergency banking legislation, legalizing 3.2 beer (he was a Dry favorite in 1924), 25? limitation on veterans' pension cuts (1933): Gold Restriction Act, Bankhead Cotton Act (1934); Wagner Act (1935); Wagner Housing Act, Neutrality Act, taxation of Federal tax exempt securities, Naval expansion...
Outside Congress: Still lean as an Indian brave, Senator McAdoo at 74 dances, rides, fishes, but less than he did three years ago. At 71 he married his third wife, Doris Cross, aged 24. Because his enemies point out that he will be 81 before he finishes another six-year term, he is at present abnormally sensitive about his age, offers to beat any of his critics at tennis. His present status in Roosevelt strategy is precarious, more that of an old pensioner than a valuable lieutenant. When the President finally got around to endorsing him from the platform...
While Franklin Roosevelt was instructing Georgia and hinting to South Carolina about his preference in Senators, four other States last week held primaries which instructed both Franklin Roosevelt and his enemies that in politics there are still a few issues besides the New Deal. Internationalist, Graft, Third Termer, Million Dollar Candidate, many another symbol or shibboleth antedating March 4, 1933, rang through the hot campaign...
...open rather than in the stagnant trenches of 1914-18. Its reconnaissance cars (mechanized cavalry) spurted 75 and 100 miles ahead, keeping tabs with headquarters by two-way radio. Its horsed cavalry rode to battle and sent its mounts back while it did its fighting. Motorized field artillery (still largely the World War French 75s, improved to give faster fire and greater range) rolled into place behind motorized infantrymen, who made long marches by truck. New mortars arched shells into supposed enemy lines with an accuracy never approached in 1918. "Silhouette" machine-gun units went into battle firing from...
...That turned out to be his great piece of fortune. For in 1933 Franklin Roosevelt's Economy Act decreed a cut in veterans' benefits, and temperate Louis Johnson saved the President from insult when he appeared at the Legion convention in Chicago. In 1936, still alive to the main chance, Louis Johnson organized the Veterans' Division of the Democratic National Committee, got his reward within the twelvemonth...