Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...between Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles could not go on indefinitely. Furthermore, Roosevelt was expected, after the usual six-to-nine-month period of hesitation, to nudge Hull out for a younger, more aggressive man. Yet it was said that the grave old Tennessean would never leave his post, if Welles was to be his successor...
Attorney General Robert H. Jackson was to be appointed Chief Justice, whenever Olympian Charles Evans Hughes retired. Frank Walker was not expected to remain Postmaster General; one possibility was that Senator James Mead of New York would be appointed to this post...
...York Post urged an end to bitter feelings and words, then proceeded thus to remind John L. Lewis of his promise to resign as head of C. I. O. upon President Roosevelt's reelection: "Here's your hat, pal-and your reversible coat." Washington observers predicted 1) that with Lewis' resignation, C. I. O.-A. F. L. peace would come soon; 2) that as leader of United Mine Workers, Lewis would continue as a potent C. I. O. figure despite his resignation; 3) that able, undramatic Phil Murray would head...
...directorship of the National Gallery he was passed over; he was made Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge only in the last year of his life. But Roger Fry made more Britons look at pictures and like them than any other man of his time. The term Post-Impressionism, for the art of Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, et al., was his invention, and through jibes and jeers he introduced Cézanne to London...
...School of Economics, sometime lecturer at Harvard, sometime White House guest of Franklin D. Roosevelt, great & good friend of many a New Deal bigwig, including Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Samuel Grafton writes I'd Rather Be Right, a New Dealing column in the New York Post. Both their books are important because they talk out loud in public about hopes that most New Dealers prefer to talk about only among New Dealers. Both are, whether the authors know it or not, handbooks of revolution. Both propose to have their radical changes take place within the democratic system. Both...