Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work was a hardworking nerve specialist and politician in Colorado until 1921, when President Harding named him First Assistant Postmaster General. When Will Hays, his chief, retired in 1922 to the quiet cloisters of the movie industry, Dr. Work stepped into the vacant Cabinet post, and a year later when Albert Bacon Fall left the shelter of the Cabinet, Dr. Work was made Secretary of the Interior. Recently Congress passed a bill lowering water charges on reclamation projects. The farmers of Scotts Bluff declare that Dr. Work as Secretary of the Interior agreed to let the collection of back charges...
...first of them is Albert Baird Cummins, venerable senex, first sent to the Senate in 1908 as a volcanic Progressive, now about as regular as any politician is likely to be in these days, a learned lawyer, devoted nowadays to judicious action...
...quotes an active politician. Tukio Ozaki, to the effect that martial success has impeded true progress. It has given Japan a sense of security, of a security which can be only temporary, and thus has removed the incentive to build carefully in politics, education, or industry. He divides the period of awakening and westerrization into two parts, the one extending through the Russian war and fraught with apt imitation: the other since that time and significant of decline...
...that politics bear little relation to scholarship, that the men who urge it are seldom scholars, and that the people on whom they depend are much less so. Political agitation, manoeuvering, and conviction depend largely upon impression. Sometimes in the higher reaches of legislative or executive activity, a particular politician acquires personal prestige enough to translate a careful program into law. But in such things as managing a national convention, one must look out for the careless prejudices of the nation at large...
...profitable phosphate beds; W. J. Salmon, shrewd Manhattan real estate operator; William Ziegler Jr., baking powder magnate; Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker, owner of Rockman, (bromo seltzer) ; I. B. Humphreys, Denver mine-owner; C. Frank Croissant, Florida real estate operator; Mrs. George B. Cox, shrewd wife of a shrewd Ohio politician; and best known of all, a gentleman who peered through his racing-glasses while nearby touts peered at him, recognizing his florid, dignified countenance as that of Financier Harry Payne Whitney, owner of Blondin, whose stable and whose sportsmanship are famous on every track...