Word: caesars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator James A. Reed, Democratic quizzer extraordinary from Missouri, glanced at Senator "Sonny" LaFollette seated below the salt (Caesar to his Lepidus), then shifted glint-eyed gaze to a Negro slouching easily back in his chair. The Senator: "Do you represent the second Chicago ward?" The Negro: "I am treasurer; 1 am chairman; I keep the books; I appoint and dismiss all officers; I am the second ward." Edward H. Wright, colored member of the Illinois Commerce Commission, scorned the U. S. Senate Committee sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July...
...virtue, in the public eye, is often heightened by his past iniquity-as was Henry IV's,* Roach Straton's,† Julius Caesar...
...least two concerns having a total of 21 government contracts. Premier Baldwin championed "the principle established in 1906 of permitting Cabinet Ministers to hold honorary corporate directorships," and the Labor motion was squelched by a government majority of 246. Cried Laborite Henderson: "It seems that all Conservatives, like Caesar's wife, are held by courtesy above suspicion...
...veins ran the purest blood of our forefathers, surcharged with the bracing airs of the new world. His courage was that of the American jaguar and of the dauntless globe-circling conquistadors. For integrity he was another Gibraltar, for vision a sun-regarding eagle, for aspiration a Napoleon, a Caesar. . . . Generous, high-minded, inflexible of will and purpose. . . . The century's, yes, all the centuries' hero...
...What edict of Augustus Caesar was last week put into effect...