Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Start in life: Lawyer turned planter and politician...
Into the East Room one day last week walked a Chicago lawyer. In his ears was the blare of the Marine band; before him, a large U-shaped table covered with green cloth; about him, diplomats in formal attire', trim state department ushers, military and naval aides, personages of great official importance. As a civilian he felt a little lost until he caught sight of his good friend Senator Borah sitting up near the head of the U-table. And there, too, were Calvin Coolidge, Frank Billings Kellogg. The Chicago lawyer watched President Hoover, looking hot in a cutaway, shake...
Shortly after his appointment, in the lobby of a Washington hotel, Secretary Hyde met another Missouri lawyer, his political archenemy, onetime Senator James A. Reed. Reed's greeting was: "As one dirt farmer to another, Arthur, howdy! How's crops...
...first official conference, Secretary Hyde said: "Don't try to make me a dirt farmer because I am not. I'm a lawyer. It's supposed to be good politics to claim to be a farmer but farmers don't want to be fooled that...
...Therefore last week millions of Britons of every party-Labor, Liberal, Conservative-breathed fervent relief as the armament-race demon was definitely scotched. The three chief scotchers were President Herbert Clark Hoover, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes-an engineer, a Socialist and a lawyer. Engineer Hoover has called for the invention of a scientific "yardstick" to gauge the relative strengths of war boats and cut the world's navies proportionately. Socialist MacDonald told Parliament, last week, that he intends to cooperate along the Hoover line, even to the extent of journeying personally to negotiate...