Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McHenry Howe mustered enough strength to get out of the car. At once jocular Mr. Garner turned and started telling him that he looked younger each time he saw him. Mr. Howe forced a sickly smile. But his wrinkled face lighted up in earnest when the Presidential Special from Warm Springs rolled in through the tunnel from the South. His job had come home...
...after Mr. Moffett's visit arrived Donald Richberg and Harry Hopkins. They and Braintruster Tugwell, who had been recalled to Warm Springs for a second visit, began their session by swimming with the President in the Warm Springs pool, continued it around the presidential luncheon table. Two days later came Secretaries Ickes and Morgenthau...
...first adviser to arrive was Housing Administrator James A. Moffett. Direct relief was not his problem, but more & more the Administration has come to think of relief in terms of stimulating the construction industry. He went to Warm Springs on the heels of a fight with Secretary Ickes over whether PWA's desire to build low-cost housing with Government money would scare private capital from entering Mr. Moffett's housing scheme (TIME...
...actual steps they had undertaken $3,700,000,000 of Public Works, had set up Mr. Moffett's Housing Administration. Results, however, had been pitifully small. And there remained a fundamental disagreement on the very issue which Mr. Moffett had described as "straightened entirely out." Some at the Warm Springs conference felt that the Moffett job of stimulating private building had not yet been given a chance, that it alone could do the job. Others, among whom were Messrs. Ickes and Hopkins, felt the Moffett method would not get results in a reasonable length of time, favored rushing Government...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Large, massive, oblong skull, flesh pretty well messed up with scars, folds and wrinkles but amazingly firm in outline. Head like a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable. Cosmopolitan, intact but hard-used. Color warm neutral with dingy hair, thick and ill-groomed at rear. Heavy jowl, thrust out and up like an iguana. Mouth curved judicially, lower lip protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever...