Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Half-Educated Demagogs...
Your writeup on the American Dental Association was a good one. For if you can go to a convention and see a more high-hatted bunch, their nose in the air, half-educated demagogs, than these self-styled dental fraternity men, you will have to name it. Their conventions are so exclusive you are confronted with a sign, "For Psy Si Members Only." Dr. So-and-So will lecture on this and that, and further along for members of the Si Psy or whatever society that you come to. Get your ticket for members only...
...Senate was unconvinced. One after another a half-dozen Senators arose to speak brief condemnations of Senator Bingham. Senator Gillett of Massachusetts, pleading for his Connecticut neighbor, revealed that when he was House Speaker he "frequently saw Congressmen drunk on the floor but he never "considered it necessary to censure them publicly...
...Clémenceau, M. Le Capitain Tardieu was sent to the U. S. as French High Commissioner. The appointment was almost a scandal. Le Capitain had never before held even ministerial rank. But he justified the "Tiger's" confidence. In the U. S. he borrowed and spent three and a half billion dollars on munitions for France...
...enforced adjournment of the Sejm, bold Speaker Daszynski defied the Dictator in several newspaper articles calling upon him either to suppress Poland's parliamentary institutions entirely or permit the Sejm to reconvene. At last Pilsudski's gruff consent was given. Deputies scurried up to Warsaw. Then last week, half an hour before Speaker Daszynski's gavel was due to fall, a rumor spread that the National Democratic and Socialist Deputies were going to rush through a vote of no-confidence in the Government...