Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then (so the story goes), Senator Borah's smile vanished. "What the hell is the matter with you?" he cried. "Have you all gone crazy? I don't know much about politics, but evidently I know a thousand times more than Hoover! What do you want to do, crucify us all in November...
...Trouble! None, excepting that nobody outside of Massachusetts ever heard of Cox. This convention has got to nominate Curtis and is going to nominate him or I shall know the reason why! Let me warn you now, Senator, you can tell the Hoover crowd that Curtis has got to be nominated to keep the western states in line and if anybody else is put up I shall go before the convention and present his name and make a fight for it, and I think I can put him across...
...mixed elements of fanaticism and craftiness, its curiously contrasting elements of idealism and greed, the dependable, cooperative discipline of a magnificent partisan machine. He made them click-the whole lot of them, poets and place hunters-and the result was one of the most sweeping and astonishing triumphs we know anything about...
American Presidents and Senators and many American Ministers-know* little of the world which exists outside the boundaries of the United States. This is a definitive in the organization of American public life which is going to matter more and more as American interests abroad increase in importance and complexity...
...masters the last to evacuate was blunt, bearish Marshal Chang* Tsung-chang, notorious during the present Civil War for his ruthless cruelty (TIME, March 7, 1927). As Chang's armored train pulled out for Manchuria, he growled to correspondents: "I won't answer questions! How should I know how many men I've got left, or how much money I've got left, or how many wives I've got left...