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When Raymond Moley, 46-year-old Professor of Public Law at Columbia University, stepped into the State Department as an Assistant Secretary on March 4, he was widely acclaimed as President Roosevelt's closest, most trusted economic adviser, the head Brain Truster who had shaped his winning campaign, a mighty power in the New Deal. When after six months he stepped out of the sub-Cabinet last week, the country hardly needed to be told...
Secretary Hull's mollification was made easier for the President by the temporary-transfer, three days prior, of Dr. Moley from the State Department to the Justice Department. Internationalist Hull and Nationalist Moley have made poor bedfellows at the State Department. President Roosevelt turned his chief Brain Truster over to Attorney General Cummings for a month to conduct a survey of crime in general, kidnapping and racketeering in particular. Dr. Moley's new assignment was entirely logical inasmuch as he had made his principal pre-election reputation as a crime researcher in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri...
...transport is legally produced, and must report monthly. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt had a slight cold. He had succeeded in losing two of the seven excess pounds he picked up on his vacation. ¶ Back from the London Conference, Assistant Secretary of State Moley, No. I Brain Truster, made a bee line to the White House to report to his chief. At the door newshawks upset him with questions about his expense account. London dispatches told how the U. S. Embassy had received bills totaling some $3,000 for Mr. Moley and Herbert Bayard Swope, his traveling companion...