Word: talking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he did not mean what he had said. He had to tell the Advisory Council not to take too seriously the trust-busting speeches of Harold Ickes and Robert Jackson. He had to explain that he had no intention of reviving NRA evenin a modified form. When his talk of a supercommittee on co-operacy aroused the jealousy of Congressmen and the suspicions of his liberal advisers, he countered with a White House invitation to little businessmen. But his most vigorous backtracking was on the subject of holding companies...
...unscheduled two-hour heart to heart talk President Roosevelt last week persuaded Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson to take the job of Solicitor General, vacated by Stanley Reed's appointment to the Supreme Court. Bob Jackson accepted on the understanding he would be allowed to name his own successor as chief trustbuster to the Department of Justice. But he accepted against the advice of his good & liberal friend, Brain-truster Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran. For Attorney General Cummings and other Administration Right-wingers the Jackson appointment was a notable victory. Mr. Cummings has never seen eye to eye with...
...Talk of the Town" the sophisticated New Yorker was skeptical of Mrs. Nieman's gift: "She has picked the wrong kind of people to go to Harvard-reporters, editorial writers, special writers. . . . It is the publishers who hold back a newspaper. . . . Because publishers want to make a lot of money so that their widows can leave a million dollars to send somebody back to Harvard. Hearst went to Harvard, and he couldn't elevate a standard if it was rigged up with pulleys...
Center's Merle Crowell, NBC's Vice President Frank Earl Mason, Yale's Professor James Harvey Rogers, Columbia University's Professors Robert Staughton Lynd, Lyman Bryson, Joseph Daniel McGoldrick, Clyde. Raymond Miller. Back & forth across the council table flies weighty talk of big U. S. problems about which the public forms opinions-Capital & Labor, the New Deal, John L. Lewis, Education. This small group might easily be the seat of a sinister super-government were it not that no two members of the Council on Public Opinion completely agree on anything very important...
...Prospectus of the British Labor Party" will be discussed by David E. Owen, assistant professor of History, in an address over Station WAAB at 7:30 o'clock tonight. The talk is sponsored by the Harvard Guardian, undergraduate publication of the Social Sciences...