Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attorney-Generalship, praised his successor, and said of the Jackson Day dinner: "Incidentally, I'm not supposed to talk about politics." In a few minutes the ordeal was over, the congratulatory messages were pouring in, and the newsmen were pounding out to fix into a pattern a week of shifts, new appointments, advancements, such as Washington has scarcely seen since the early days of the New Deal...
Biggest surprise was the appointment of 43-year-old Jimmy Cromwell, amateur economist, amateur boxer, amateur politician, husband of wealthy ($53,000,000) Doris Duke, to the comfortable, socially pleasant, politically important post of Minister to Canada. Last week New Jersey's potent Frank Hague declared that Diplomat Cromwell would make an "ideal" New Jersey Senatorial candidate. Unkind Washington wags commented: "Jimmy Cromwell's appointment indicates that our relations with Canada are in the best possible condition...
...hero of the week was Bachelor Frank Murphy, whose sister Mrs. Margaret Teahan is still kept busy denying that she ever said, "He [Frank] looks more like Jesus every day." About him Washington has had a hard time making up its official mind, with admirers retelling stories of the goodness of his heart, his piety, his patience during the sit-down strikes, his liberalism, his bushy eyebrows, his devotion to President Roosevelt, while detractors remembered his complexity, moodiness, the tales of his self-righteousness and his habit of suddenly drifting off during a conversation, staring moodily into space. Because...
Twenty years ago last week Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer smashed into the U. S. radical movement. On Jan. 2, 1920, Department of Justice agents converged on radical hangouts and hideouts, rounded up 3,000 suspects the first day, blackened the administration of Woodrow Wilson as charges of injustice, of violations of civil liberties, of sluggings, third-degrees, left a heritage of suspicion of U. S. laws and U. S. courts. The radical movement recovered, but not the political fortunes of wavy-haired, square-jawed A. Mitchell Palmer...
...Last week the Dies Committee chose the anniversary of the Palmer raids to make public its report of its 18-month investigation of un-American activities. Boiled down out of some 7,000 pages of testimony (3.773,600 words) taken from 205 witnesses, it was a document that no radical could have expected from the Dies Committee. Loudly critics have cried that Martin Dies was leading a witch hunt, that he was emulating A. Mitchell Palmer, that he was a Fascist, that he relied on hearsay and innuendo and accused individuals of Communist activities without giving them a chance...