Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill whether he liked it or not) were brought together by Jimmy Byrnes, the slickest compromiser in the Senate. Giving in to an extent almost unknown during the New Deal, Mr. Roosevelt finally told Henry ("Henny-Penny"), Morgenthau it was all right if he wanted to tell the Congressmen to remove certain tax-irritants...
...parade their close relatives before their public, to make a point or fill a stick. Constant readers know about the mothers of Hugh Johnson and Hey wood Broun, about Dorothy Thompson's son and Eleanor Roosevelt's husband. Last week Westbrook Pegler had a good story to tell about his father...
Arthur Pegler's son Westbrook could tell many another story of his old man, for the elder Pegler is a living example of the oldtime newspaperman. He went to work for the London Daily Telegraph before he was 20 and quit the New York Daily Mirror year before last at 73. In 1884 he landed in New York from a freighter and headed west. For three years he rode the range in the Dakotas and Iowa, then covered the trial of a brewer for the murder of a Methodist temperance leader who had put over local option in Sioux...
...Grey may not have lobbied for A. G. & E. but in Washington he is considered a lobbyist. A steely-eyed gentleman of 45, he is one of that populous capital group who appear to know everything about everybody but tell nothing about themselves. He has been variously a newshawk, an ambulance driver for the A.E.F. in France, an adviser to the coal interests when they drew up their NRA code...
...What did he tell you about me?" asked Mr. Dabney...