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...President set course for reelection. During his first years in office, Roosevelt had performed a remarkable patch job on a sick economy. But the closing of the banks, the departure of the gold standard, the proliferation of alphabetical emollient agencies - the AAA, the CCC, the SEC, the WPA, the NRA - had done more than restore public confidence. In Roosevelt's mind, Moley says, the relative success of these measures supported the conviction that he was a political messiah, the only man who could conduct the country to its rendezvous with destiny...
...official handout, preferring to find out for himself. And as a result, he piled up an impressive catalogue of scoops. In 1933 he was the first to report that the U.S. was going off the gold standard; that same year, he broke the news about the formation of the NRA. He won Pulitzer prizes for exclusive interviews with Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Even after he was replaced by James Reston as bureau chief in 1953, the probing columnist stayed on the job. "I didn't retreat," he says. "I withdrew to a previously prepared position...
...industrialist, sexually "neuter" and Valedictorian. Libby (Jessica Walter) is a bitch who becomes a career woman in the publishing world. Polly (Shirly Knight) runs metabolism tests because the money ran out for her doctor's education, and keeps a delightfully insane father. Priss (Elizabeth Hartman) worked for NRA, then married and went through mental agonies over breast-feeding. Kay (Joanna Pettet), whose marriage begins the action of the story and whose death ends it, marries a failure who eventually beats her and nearly drives her insane--but she can't let The Group know she's made an unsuccessful marriage...
...dutiful trustbuster in Holmes. Then Holmes handed down his first important dissent in favor of a big corporation, inciting T. R. to snarl that the new Justice had less backbone than a banana. The early fruits of Black's appointment were equally bitter. Choleric ex-NRA Administrator Hugh Johnson denounced him as "a born witch burner -narrow, prejudiced, class-conscious." Not only did the New York Herald Tribune storm that he had "not the slightest qualification," but newsmen soon discovered that he had once been a Ku Klux Klansman. Black took to the radio to announce that...
...White House has ever moved faster" than Johnson. In the hectic beginning days of the New Deal, F.D.R. announced the Good Neighbor Policy, called the bank holiday, passed the Federal Emergency Relief Act, took the U.S. off the gold standard, and started the CCC, AAA, TVA, HOLC, FDIC, FCA, NRA and WPA. And all that in 100 days, not five months. Johnson is a whirlwind, but Roosevelt was a cyclone...