Word: wisemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along Radio Row, distinguished necks were bared to the ax. The networks' fall schedules were almost filled in. Yet nobody had met the ante for such top-dollar talent as Nelson Eddy, Hildegarde, Rudy Vallee, and the wisemen on Information Please. Instead, low-priced shows had been snapped up. The reason: radio advertisers had pared their budgets to the bone (TIME...
...Franklin Roosevelt's acceptance speech, he pointed a finger of reproach at the "one exception," the only man who had refused to help him in his program for national defense. Who was the man? Gossip sizzled. The President would not tell. Washington wisemen thought it must have been Alf Landon, who had reportedly turned down a Cabinet job when the President refused to commit himself on Term...
...Sent to Congress a plea to let him spend next fiscal year's relief fund (present Budget estimate: $975,000,000) in eight months, ask a deficiency appropriation later. Reason: business and tax receipts are below expectations, relief demands are up. Said Washington wisemen: without such authorization, Democrats would be unable to load up relief rolls at election time...
...analyst, casting up accounts in U. S. politics, can afford to ignore the fact that seven of the last 14 men in the White House came from Ohio. Many Washington wiseacres underestimate Bob Taft, are constantly surprised when he shows up on top in political scrimmages. What such wisemen do not realize is the depth, solidity and range of Bob Taft's political machine-shop background. As speaker of the Ohio Legislature's House, as a State Senator, as a precinct worker all the way up from doorbell-pulling, he long since graduated from one of the toughest...