Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agent. For twelve years (1909-21) an Iowa Congressman. Western Campaign Manager for Calvin Coolidge as well as Herbert Hoover, he has come in the Hoover Cabinet to represent the rural psychology on political matters far more than does Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde of Missouri. The other politician in the Cabinet, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Toledo, represents city politics...
...become Cleveland's first manager. Three times in almost three years Cleveland citizens have been asked to vote down the city manager plan by Harry Lyman Davis, onetime Governor of Ohio and mayor of Cleveland, who sought to restore "the city government to the people" - and the politicians. To the defense of Manager Hopkins' government flocked the women. They campaigned for him. made house-to-house canvasses, got out the vote. They kept him in office last week against the vigorous masculine campaigning of Politician Davis...
Banker, violinist, politician, student, diplomatist, orator, composer, Charles Gates Dawes is also a lawyer. He practiced from 1887 to 1894, as neighbor and contemporary of William Jennings Bryan and John Joseph Pershing, in Lincoln, Nebr...
...manner which led many to suppose that he was putting over the Hoover nomination singlehanded, was preparing to direct the whole Hoover campaign. Such was not the case in 1928, but it may be in 1932. Last week, betting in the capital was 2-1 that this affable "whitecollar" politician from the South would become chairman of the Republican National Committee with the job of drivng the G.O.P. steamroller...
...driver of the steamroller. Marion Marjorie Scranton, tall, stylish daughter-in-law of the family that founded and named Scranton, was once (in a nominating speech) called "God's greatest gift to mankind." She is attractive; she is dashing?too much so, according to conservative Pennsylvania politicians who gossiped critically about cigaret smoking and such like. But above all she is a "good politician," now stepping with cheerful speed from local to national fame...