Word: politician
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...June Atlantic begins with another installment of the letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, edited by George Birbeck Hill. This installment contains the letters for 1855. Striking features in this issue are an article upon The Politician and the Public School, by Mr. G. L. Jones, Superintendent of Schools, Cleveland, Ohio; Restriction of Immigration, by President Francis A. Walker; and Lord Howe's Commission to Pacify the Colonies, an important historical contribution, by Paul Leicester Ford, embodying a hitherto unpublished manuscript...
...Populists have sent good men to Congress: Rev. of Revs., vol. 10, p. 6.- (a) Few of them could be regarded as belonging to the politician class.- (b) They are fair representatives of honest and well intentioned citizenship of the states from which they come: Rev. of Revs., vol. 10, p. 11.- (c) The Populists in Congress stand first of all for the purification of national politics: Rev. of Revs., vol. 10, p. 38, W. V. Allen, Populist.- (1) They are arrayed against the money power.- (2) They have no party patronage to hamper them...
...judged; and that he was to be the time keeper, to whom not the latitude but the longitude, of the question was entrusted. He spoke of the advantage of debating the great public questions of the day, and of hearing them debated, not with the drifting aimlessness of the politician tied to his party, but with the energy and frankness of men who have as yet no political affiliations. He then explained the question which was to be debated and the rules governing the debate. Each speaker was to have twelve minutes and five minutes for rebuttal...
...William Potts of Connecticut will give a lecture under the auspices of the Civil Service Reform Club in Sever 11, Monday, Feb. 25, at 7.30 p.m. He will speak on "George William Curtis, as a literary man, as a politician, and as a civil service reformer." Mr. Potts was secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League when Mr. Curtis was its president and is therefore particularly competent to speak about...
NEXT week will close the engagement of Roland Reed at the Boston Museum in his highly successful comedy, "The Politician." This play has made such a great hit that large houses greet the players at every performance. No one should lose the opportunity of seeing him as General Josiah Limber, the greatest success of his professional career. He shows up in the most ludicrous light the defects in our political system, so that politicians themselves are kept in a constant laughter. The satirical view in which the comedy is written and the clever manner in which the leading character...