Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief lobbyist for the McNary-Haugen bill was found to be ensconced in the Vice President's offices at Washington while Congress was McNary-Hauging. For this Mr. Dawes was roundly scored by Chicago business friends. The explanation was that Mr. Dawes, smart politician, traded his support of the McNary-Haugen bill-which he felt sure President Coolidge would veto-for reciprocal Senate support of the McFadden Branch-Banking bill, which became...
President Butler's subject for the evening was "The Lost Art of Thinking." He soon made mental mince-meat of people who cannot read Kant and Aristotle. Equally effective was his onslaught upon "the office-holding and office-seeking class" in the U. S.; that is, the politicians. What politicians were doing any morally courageous thinking? Which of them had labored to ensure against a repetition of the World War? Which of them had solved the farmer's problem? What politician had declared any reasoned convictions on Prohibition...
...registered to elect a mayor. They had had but one mayor since 1912-crisp, greying Mayor James ( Plain Jim of the Mission") Rolph Jr. To oppose Mayor Rolph's reelection there had now stepped forward James E. Power, tEe power behind whom was Sheriff Tom Finn, old-time politician. Mayor Rolph endorsed William J. Fitzgerald to oust "Boss'' Finn as Sheriff, saying: "Bossism must be thrust down!" San Franciscans reflected that "Plain Jim Rolph of the Mission"†† was the man who had brought the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to town, in L915...
...most inexcusable of your blunders is that which calls Washington a Deist, and likens him in this respect to Thomas Paine, then goes on to insinuate that Washington lent his influence to the perpetuation of religion in spite of this assumed fact, because he was an "able politician." This is to brand Washington a hypocrite. There are many pages in his public addresses and messages which no Deist could sincerely have written. Take, for example, the passage in his message to the governors of the States when disbanding the army, June 8, 1783, beginning "I now make it my earnest...
...telephone instructress, the electrician, the tire repair man, the auto salesman, the baker's delivery man, the floor walker, the ice salesman, the tailor and the leather worker who were empaneled three weeks ago in Washington D.C. to decide the guilt or innocence of the aged New Mexico politician (Albert Bacon Fall) and the opulent oilman (Harry Ford Sinclair) in their alleged conspiracy to defraud the U. S. ( TIME, Oct. 31), had listened for over a week to legalistic intricacies. Between court Sons they were free to go to their homes, their only instructions being to avoid discussing the case...