Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the unpaid fine and costs, restored his civil rights. At a press conference last February, the President called forward to his desk James Parks Hornaday, Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis News, and declared: "The nicest and truest thing I can say about you is that you are a gentleman of the Press." The occasion was the 50th anniversary of Hornaday's work as a newspaperman, a tribute to him as dean of Washington newshawks since he went to Washington at the time Roosevelt I was inaugurated. Last week Roosevelt II said: "There was-there is-among Washington newspapermen...
...decision was written by Justice Chester Almeron Fowler, a handsome, upstanding, straight-thinking gentleman who golfs, fishes, camps, walks 24-miles to his office every day and will probably celebrate his 73rd birthday this week by a brisk game of curling. Famed for his verbal vigor, old Justice Fowler growled in his insurance case decision...
Painful was the distress in Washington of kindly Secretary of State Cordell Hull. He has been receiving cold advance dope from Ambassador Breckinridge Long in Rome for two months that The Deal was on its way, but as a gentleman he found himself unable to believe anything so unflattering to his gentlemen friends and the gentlemen friends of Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham in the London Government. Paradoxically, able Ambassador Breckinridge Long has been getting much of his cold dope from British Ambassador Eric Drummond, now in Rome after 14 years as Secretary General of the League of Nations...
...this Lord de Clifford, whose mother was a six-foot showgirl, came towering in -six feet five inches of gangling but impeccably groomed youth. Escorting him to the bar, where he fell on his knees upon a velvet cushion, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod boomed, "Oyez, oyez. God save the King...
...their pell-mell way to join the New Deal in the spring of 1933, the professors of the Brain Trust might have noticed one of their former colleagues proceeding in the opposite direction. The tall, bald, rangy gentleman with the glum expression was William Marion Jardine, who had deserted his books to be Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt. After a brief stay in the Kansas State Treasurer's office, Republican Jardine was offered and accepted the presidency of the Municipal University of Wichita. (Enrollment...