Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norris, Union Pacific R. R. President Carl Raymond Gray, U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard, Neb.). The State has yet to nominate its two most famed sons for the Nebraska niches in National Statuary...
...Success" is the story of a prominent English politician, who, at middle age, finds himself shut in from the pleasures of the world by success. Suddenly he has a chance to recapture his first love, and his struggle to cling to romance, while success closes about him once more, forms the central interest of the play...
...loll on the deck of a tanker, coatless, hatless, collarless, vestless, and with no photographers about-ah boys! that is an ideal holiday for a politician. Most people think of a tanker as a dirty old tub. It is nothing of the sort. The food is excellent, and the sleeping accommodations as good as on any liner...
Biggest man of the week in France was Edouard Daladier, never big before. Young for a statesman, he is but 45. Less than a dozen years ago he was teaching history in the public schools of sleepy Orange. Stocky, pugnacious, eloquent he caught the eye of the boss-politician of central France, famed Edouard Herriot, spellbinding Mayor of Lyons. Edouard gave Edouard a leg up into the Chamber of Deputies in 1919, and fora time Edouard toadied to Edouard in return. When Mayor Herriot became Prime Minister in 1924 he popped Henchman Daladier into the Ministry of Colonies, later...
Because of her relations with a sinuous foreigner. Julius Beaufort, she is the center of gossip. Love again comes into her life in the person of Newland Archer, rising young politician, who is already married to her cousin. However, she scarifies herself for the sake of her lover's career and the scenes leading up to the renunciation have dramatic power that Miss Cornell utilizes to the full...