Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observe, is the prohibition problem. To the European mind it is a accepted theory that women are responsible for prohibition. They are accredited with bullying men into supporting a regulation which they formulated of their own accord and by sheer domination having it made into law. Furthermore, the woman politician has just begun her "epidemic of lawmaking" according to Count Keyserling. He paints a gloomy picture of a country reduced to the bondage of minor social laws about which the masculine politician has little or nothing to say. To infer the worse it seems altogether too probable that the inversion...
...bond houses, build hotels, publish the Houston Chronicle, etc., etc. He looks, acts and is one of the richest men in all rich Texas?Jesse Holman Jones. In Who's Who, Mr. Jones calls himself, "builder, financier." Among nationally experienced Democrats, he has come to be known as a politician, almost as well known as that other Texan, Col. Edward Mandell House of the Wilson regime...
...RECKONING-Stephen McKenna -Little, Brown ($2.50). This is the last volume in the series of three called The Realists. The central figures in the series are again three: Ambrose Sheridan, titan and punching politician, who marries Auriol Otway who loves Max Hendry. In Due Reckoning, the Gordian knot of this situation is not sliced but neatly untied by Author McKenna. That he had the untying in mind when he first pulled the strings tight is sufficiently obvious; and Auriol's prayers for the one chance in a hundred that will release her from a marriage that was never more...
...campaign expenses. Then come the tickets for balls and kindred entertainments. . . . Congressmen are considered easy marks and their names grace many a list of angels, honored by the company of America's leading philanthropists. The cost of tickets for card parties, bazaars, etc., pockmark the old stipend. A politician has to be charitable and charity tugs not at the heart, but the purse. ". . . Our extravagances are expressed before the galleries. No sightseers observe the Cabinet in argument, excitement or perplexity. You cannot tune in on the White House static. Before a Presidential Proclamation, the controversial clashes have been hushed...
...remains to be seen whether the humorist will consent to take the proposition seriously. But at all events it is interesting that it should have been made. Whether or not his experiences as Mayor have given him local reputation as a politician or whether or not his travels and contacts with persons in high places are thought to be proof of his political acumen are matters that have not been discussed. He himself will probably answer the questions himself, and one is not sorry that the should have the opportunity...