Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. assembled last week at Washington (see p. 25) for its 14th annual meeting. The meeting endured four days. More than 30 speakers were on the program, but of the 30 odd, there were only three politicians whom the business men chose to address them. One of them was Herbert Hoover, who is, not excepting the more generally recognized Secretary of the Treasury, the chief economic policymaker of the Administration?the former mining engineer, brilliant in his business, but with no talent for the handshaking and good fellowship which go to make the ordinary...
Viscount Grey, onetime Foreign Secretary, once remarked: "Mr. Winston Churchill has achieved distinction in at least five different careers-as a soldier, a war correspondent, a lecturer, an author and last, but not least, as a politician...
Died. Oscar Solomon Straus, 76, merchant, politician, diplomat, philanthropist; in Manhattan...
...cannot claim a burning interest in the subject. Yet there is a mild fascination in this reaction of an eminent political lady to the conduct of political men, eminent and extremely otherwise. Why should the politician, handshaker though he is in some circumstances, habitually dive for a fight when he could be assured of modest winnings by gentler means? Mrs. Blair believes that explanations begin at home; that the housewife has long acted by program, unhampered in her kingdom of accomplishment, while man as warrior, bread winner, or political warder has always faced competition, and, being long habituated, now creates...
...When he had finished his law course, I would tell him to start at once and to start as a professional politician. In politics, as in sport, the old maxim holds, 'a third rate pro is an over-match for the best of amateurs'. He will have to begin at the bottom. Politics is no different from any other profession. You cannot start at the top. I have had many friends who at one time or another thought they would like to enter politics, or 'public service' as they generally preferred to call it. Too often they have decided that...