Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type to sit back dumbly during cross-examining. The Republican side of the committee has Senator Goff of West Virginia, a so-called hard-boiled Republican of the genus bred in West Virgina, and Senator McNary of Oregon, known in the Senate as an able cloakroom politician...
...June 14). There, the Plain Dealer's accidental monopoly of the morning field was threatened by the purchase of the Times by able Publisher Earle E. Martin. In Buffalo, monopoly of the morning field was systematically secured to the new Courier and Express, doubtless through the sagacity of Publisher-Politician-Sportsman William J. ("Fingy") Connors of the Courier, at whose plant the new sheet was published and whose son, William J. Jr., was announced as the new publisher. Besides the Express there was no other morning paper competing with the Courier...
...series of remarkable leaders. So one cannot do better than to forget both and remember that all the issues were social and economic protests indebted to politics neither for existence or importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with all outstanding social evils...
Charles Debbas, a potent Arab politician, as the first President of the Republic of Great Lebanon...
Married. John Chipman Farrar, editor of The Bookman; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, crossword puzzle authoress; in Manhattan. Best man: Charles Phelps Taft 2nd. Ushers: S. V. Benet (poet-novelist); Philip Barry (playwright); F. T. Davison (wealthy politician); Artemus L. Gates (Yale football captain, World War hero); Hamilton Hadley (son of Yale University's President Emeritus); Robert A. Lovett (son of "Judge" Lovett, famed railway magnate...