Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that you have an honest face, aren't egotistical as the men here who are so few they have to be diluted to go around, and will reciprocate to Frances Elizabeth Jones. Box 3129--TSCW. Denton...
Questioned about the unfavorable publicity received by the Madison, Wis., convention of the American Student Union and the resolution made for its abolition by Representative Martin of the New York State legislature, she defended the organization. "Young people do not get favorable publicity," she said, "because they aren't as good as their elders in putting across their ideas...
...agitation for civil service reform is the idea that the service should try to attract young men from colleges. It was probably Henry Adams who began the lament that "gentlemen just aren't going into politics these days." That was in the Gilded Age, when capitalism gorged itself on the resources of the nation and made government its subservient tool. The real history of that Age lies in the annals of business, not the archives of government. So it was that men whom the business interests considered "safe" gained easy election to Congress, and the Senate was dubbed the "rich...
...ground as always, Kansas' cadaverous Senator Arthur Capper invited a farmers' meeting at Topeka to tell him what was wrong with the world. Up popped Constituent A. F. McHenry: "The trouble with our Senators and Representatives is we farmers aren't getting anything from them but hot air and oratory. Two fellows down at Baker University won an oratorical contest and now they're in an asylum. I think some of our Senators and Representatives should be there with them...