Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...included Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming (Governess Ferguson was omitted; from Texas was chosen Florence P. Sterling, an officer of the Humble Oil Co.); Reah H. Whitehead, a justice of the peace from Washington; Mary M. Bartelme, a judge of the Chicago Juvenile Court; Izetta Jewell Brown, a politician from West Virginia (TIME, June 2, 1924)?business women, club women, attorneys, doctors, authors, editors, educators?all the usual and unusual occupations ranging to Elizabeth Daingerfield, Kentucky breeder of fine horses...
...defense can possibly justify the appointment of men like William Burgess, who sat on the Tariff Commission after long representing the pottery interests in tariff squabbles or of E. G. Broussard, a strong high tariff man with no more technical knowledge of his subject than the average politician. And similar appointments have been made recently to the Interstate Commerce and Federal Trade Commissions...
...predecessor, Senator Doumer, failed to solve them, although he is one of the greatest fiscal experts in France. His predecessor was, of course, M. Loucheur, "the richest man in France," a great industrialist whose failure was no less complete. Now appears M. Peret, a skilled lawyer and a veteran politician, but scarcely an expert of the first rank in state finance. He occupied himself with a modicum of quiet activity last week-sent to the Senate those clauses of the tax bill which the Chamber had voted before it upset the Cabinet. From these driblets of added taxation...
...nature seldom goes to extremes; that is, it seldom degenerates into the pervert, seldom rises above average to the genius. Interests that have attracted him with exceptional force, interests to which he has given himself most unreservedly, are only two: finance and religion. He is not notable as farmer, politician, soldier, artist or scientist...
...left the Klan last fall, it had 97,000 members a year and a half ago, and now has less than 18,000. Several of its locals are in the hands of "supervisors", virtual receivers. Its power has fallen so rapidly that Klan support is a liability to a politician...