Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural that their fight for it is personally motivated, for even lawyers have emotions. Partner Cohen says: "If we have to become propagandists, we were driven to it." When Senator Tydings of Maryland or Senator George of Georgia snarls at "two little Wall Street lawyers who want the power to say who shall or shall not be Senators," they know well that their quarrel is not with Lawyers Corcoran & Cohen but with Client Roosevelt...
...Addressing some Young Republicans last June, Representative Bruce Barton held up Tommy Corcoran as a model of industry for Young Republicans to emulate if they want to save their party. "It can be said truthfully of him," said Mr. Barton, "as was said by a contemporary of Sir Walter Raleigh: 'I know that he can toil terribly...
...Republican State Convention that Republicans must again win the confidence of all classes of people (TIME. July 11). Said Publicist Powel: "He is the only man in politics with a radio voice that you could back against the voice of President Roosevelt. . . . The grand strategy, if you want to beat the New Deal, is to find a man who can deserve the loyalty and faith of all the little men and women in the land." Meanwhile, Republican chiefs definitely decided on Bruce Barton as one of their candidates for New York's two U. S. Senators to be elected...
Good modern architects have something which good U. S. communities want. This encouraging fact appeared two years ago in the appointment of Bauhaus-Founder Walter Gropius, professor in Harvard's architectural department, last year in the opening of Chicago's New Bauhaus. This week it appeared again when 33-year-old President Henry Townley Heald of Chicago's Armour Institute announced that his tough technical school had hired Ludwig Mies van der Rohe of Berlin to direct its school of architecture...
Adams, who had known 14 out of 25 presidents, complained, "I don't want to see any more." For him the White House was "ghastly with bloody and dreary associations"; Cleveland gratified him only by the "astounding denseness" of his intelligence, and as for Roosevelt, "if he tried me ten years ago. he crushes me now." Dinners at the White House were deadly, with poor food, poor liquor and Roosevelt howling anecdotes about the Rough Riders...