Word: quiteness
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...ablest pen in 1936 has been that of Des Moines Register's, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling. This year "Ding," who carried away from Washington a first-rate grudge when he quit the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey because the New Deal failed to spend enough on conserving his beloved wild life, has pounded tirelessly at the New Deal spending on other projects. He has shown Harry Hopkins making the electorate sit up and bark for WPA grants, Franklin Roosevelt as a Roman emperor tossing a puny taxpayer to a gladiator labeled Eleven Billion Dollar Deficit...
Brisk and personable young "Jimmy" Warburg welcomed Franklin Roosevelt's election in 1932 with high enthusiasm, took his place as one of the New President's close economic advisers. Among the first such pilots to abandon the New Deal ship, he quit in bitter disillusionment after the President torpedoed the London Economic Conference, at which Banker Warburg was U. S. fiscal expert, and with it Warburg's hopes for currency stabilization and revived international trade. Last year Banker Warburg capped his outspoken criticism of his old chief with Hell Bent for Election, which eloquently denounced Franklin Roosevelt...
...particularly etching, always interested him. Working alone and teaching himself, he etched two plates, took them down to London to sell. Instantly Dealers Colnogni & Co. recognized the effectiveness of his draughtsmanship, his forceful use of strong black shadows, bargained for all the etchings Bone could make. Muirhead Bone quit the bank, has never since failed to prosper...
With the Armistice Lewis got a post in augurating a Chinese airline and teaching Chinese students to fly. He lived in Peking for two years, owned his own Chinese house at the age of 22, suddenly quit flying...
...head of the AAA he quarreled with Braintrusters over the agricultural codes, finally resigned. President Roosevelt made him special foreign trade adviser and head of the Export-Import Banks. Then came the reciprocal trade treaties, which George Peek thought Secretary Hull was mishandling. So he quit the Democrats for good. Last week he completed the cycle, announced, after twice publicly postponing his selection, that the man who would give the farmers the best break from the White House in 1937-41 would be Republican Alf Landon...