Word: winant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...master at St. Paul's had such an influence as Gil Winant. His shaggy, outthrust head, his dark burning eyes made those who saw him think of Lincoln. His young pupils found themselves wishing he had been born in a log cabin, were convinced that he would be President some day. They did not know whether this gauche, inarticulate teacher was a great man; but he made them sure that great men existed...
...flyer Gil Winant was absentminded. But he led a charmed life. The day before a big drive he came back from reconnaissance duty with 90 bullet holes in a wing and the motor half torn off. He took up another plane, had it shot from under him, spent the rest of the day in a third plane...
Altogether he cracked up seven planes. He flew with famed Eddie Rickenbacker. Years later Winant asked Rickenbacker if he had ever been frightened in the war. "Only once," said Rickenbacker. "When you taxied me around a field...
...Little New Deal. After World War I, he married Constance Rivington Russell, whose father was the wealthy law partner of Eleanor Roosevelt's father. They settled down in a rambling white frame Colonial house in Concord. There Winant took up his political career. He scorned political machines, political patronage, was a dismal campaigner. But New Hampshire was ripe for his liberal, common-man political philosophy. He got elected to the State Legislature; in 1925 he beat Colonel Frank Knox, now Secretary of the Navy, for Governor, broke the New Hampshire anti-third-term tradition...
...Governor, Winant set up a Little New Deal before Roosevelt. In the early '30s he was often mentioned as a possible 1936 Republican candidate for President. The New Deal noticed him too-and took him into camp. He went to Washington as first chairman of the Social Security Board, became director of the International Labor Organization, and finally representative of the international New Deal as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...