Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pledged to stay in Washington to counsel with the President. To all but one Mr. Roosevelt said in effect: Go on home if you want. Airplanes are always handy. But to Charles Linza McNary of Salem, Ore., Republican leader in the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt said: Stay here. Since then wise, weary Charlie McNary has constantly counseled with the President, breakfasts at the White House sometimes thrice a week, always entering from the Treasury side to dodge reporters. To the President Charles McNary has given many pieces of his mind, but only one piece has leaked out. Over the scrambled eggs...
...their suppression. We feel that there has been sufficient evidence of infringement of academic freedom throughout the nation--witness the Browder case at Harvard and the recent Dies Committee attacks on the American Student Union--to make the formation of such a committee as PBK has called for a wise precaution at this time...
...Michigan's "sitdown Governor." With Franklin Roosevelt, he talked over the enormous monetary and social losses, the discredit cast on Labor's political friends. C. I. O.'s Vice Presidents Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman got telephone calls from Mr. Murphy. To Detroit went wise, placid Phil Murray, and into private conference with Chrysler's Keller. Meantime, the Attorney General telephoned to none other than Son Elliott Roosevelt. After broadcasting inaccurate noises about the issues in "the Chrysler strike," Son Roosevelt was on his way to explosive Detroit to address a back-to-work meeting. After...
...personal piece of family war work. Installed in the Casino de Bellevue is the leading eye, ear, nose & throat hospital of France, and the knitting and bandage-rolling centre of Biarritz is the famed Hotel du Palais, once a palace of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. Wise old Madame la Marüchale Pütain, who is in charge of the knitting, carefully let it be known that women of all classes are welcome, sits nowadays clicking her needles benignly amid an assortment of serving maids, duchesses, peasants' wives, princesses, cooks...
...wise citizen of Paris wants to know what Hitler and Stalin are thinking, what will be the next fantastic episode in an improbable war, he reads what Geneviéve Tabouis has to say in L'Oeuvre, then waits for the exact opposite to happen. For Tabouis is one of the most readable and unreliable reporters of secret political maneuvers, behind-the-scenes diplomacy in all Europe...