Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruled by a commission. The Administration favored Hoover & Successors. Congressman White wrote an appropriate bill and the House passed it. For the Senate, Mr. Dill wrote a bill about a commission, and the Senate passed that. Committees of the upper and lower houses met, worked long, late. That consummate politician, Senator Watson of Indiana, labored for harmony. Harmony came, but the Senator idea, slightly anti-Administration...
...Congressman-author is Gilbert Nelson Haugen, a sincere, likable old politician, who was reared in Wisconsin and rose in Iowa. He never had much education, has doubtless gone further than his father thought he would. He has never permitted either his ambitions or insidious urban barbers to run away with his rural idea of a proper tonsure...
...idea of being absolutely fair for a month or so? Why do you always make the President's statements very wise and important when we realize that they are seldom his own and then throw ridicule at Mr. Borah, who is foolish enough to try and be a politician and a Christian too, and who, of course, is barred from the Presidency because he is too big to let any group control...
...Chester A. Arthur, polished but unimportant politician, became Vice President of the U. S. In the same year President Garfield was assassinated and Mr. Arthur became President. Oath of office was administered at his home on the first floor apartment of No. 123 Lexington Ave., Manhattan. Last week that floor was gritted by fire...
...cases differ: Mr. Smith, a politician with ambition, had received money from an interested businessman; Mr. Gould, a businessman, had helped out a needy politician...