Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate) go through motions which notify the coun- try that (though the matter may be handled by one of the 79 committees which Congress keeps standing for all purposes) the treatment will not be mere routine efficiency but something extra-special and significant indeed. Sometimes, if a sufficiently potent Inquisitor insists, an extra-special committee is appointed...
Also on exhibition is a manuscript of Horace's Odes and Epodes, written in an Italian hand of the fifteenth century for Leonardo Bruni and given by him to the Grand Inquisitor Torquenada...
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, hero or marplot* is conspicuous as the only Senator who, already famed, has increased his fame during the 69th Congress. He, a sizzling meteor among orators, a bastinado of the present trend of U. S. politics, has seized the role of Senator inquisitor, which Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana and the late LaFollette of Wisconsin once held. Everyone knows how Senator Reed revealed several millions in certified slush in Pennsylvania and Illinois (TIME, May 31, et seq.) ; how he dragged the Anti-Saloon League into the investigations and gave it its first important...
...uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions out of 287 cases during his 15-month term-an astounding record. On such food the inquisitor of the Senate was trained. For two terms he was an able Mayor of Kansas City. In 1904 he reached prematurely for the governorship and received his only popular defeat. Then he returned to his law practice, sharpened his tongue and his wits. In 1911 it was a polished lawyer...
...Roberts, as a representative of the press, may I ask which part did you personally prefer in The Ten Commandments? I think . . ." The grey-mustachioed gentleman removed from his mouth a long, black stogy, glared at his inquisitor. "Who," said he, "do you think I am?" "Why, Theodore Roberts, the movie actor," gasped the reporter. "You are mistaken, sir! My name is Cummins." Last week great grandfather Albert Baird Cummins, Senator from Iowa, for nearly two decades one of the greatest influences in the governance of the U. S. was stricken with heart disease, died suddenly. Theodore Roberts, merely...