Word: talkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McKee knew his first task was to show Portlanders that all utilitycoons were not Insulls. A good mixer, a good talker, McKee brightened many a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary, other clubs. Last year, Portland citizens raised $15,000 to help him beat Federal power at the polls...
...pushover is Harold Rugg. An indefatigable talker, he stumped the nation, confronting his enemies at school-board hearings, Rotary luncheons, parent-teacher meetings. He found people everywhere, he says, talking about Rugg. Professor Rugg reports off-the-record tete-a-tetes with his critics (whom he usually managed to mollify), names his chief foes - New York State Economic Council's Merwin K. Hart, Elizabeth Dilling (The Red Network), Hearst Columnist B. C. Forbes, American Legionnaire 0. K. Armstrong, Journalist George E. Sokolsky. He quotes Hart: "If you find any organization containing the word 'democracy,' it is probably...
...amazing talker, "King" Cole can discuss any subject like an expert although he has been to school only 19 months and 4 days in his life...
Candidate Wallace stopped unheralded at a street corner and engaged four surprised passers-by in conversation. A tireless talker, the ablest interpreter of intricate New Deal theories of spending, lending, taxation, Henry Wallace held forth on these matters while the crowd grew slowly from four to 40. Shy but resolute, he fixed his blue eyes on the ground as he talked, sometimes scuffed the dirt away with his shoe. Presently one listener spoke up: "The trouble is, there's no limit to this spending." Henry Wallace replied that when private capital does not flow Government funds must be expended...
Died. Dr. John Huston Finley, 76, walker (ten or twelve miles a day), talker (afterdinner and lectures), editor-emeritus of the New York Times; of a coronary embolism, while asleep; in Manhattan...