POLITICAL NOTES: Moley's Hymn

POLITICAL NOTES Moley's Hymn

"Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty" was a much-quoted squib in Washington during the first New Deal, when Professor Raymond Moley was indeed mighty in the Brain Trust. While Mr. Moley was serving Franklin Roosevelt and accumulating a reputation for vanity, he was also storing away a vast stock of personal notes, memoranda and unwritten recollections. Last week the written sum of it appeared in book form, a good 20 years before Franklin Roosevelt might normally have expected himself and his early administration to be thus exposed from within.

Raymond Moley's...

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