Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst as a politician has not been notoriously successful. His father, who went West in 1850, made a few millions in mining and became a Senator from California. William Randolph has made a great many more millions, out of paper and ink, but he has had no great success as a politician. In 1896 and 1900 he backed Bryan. In 1902 he took boss Croker's nomination from Tammany and was elected to Congress from the 11th New York District. He served two terms (four years) and it has been said that he did not appear in Congress more than...
...call to decide for your city between John F. Hylan, clean and honest servant of your interest and yours alone, whose record of deeds contains no blemish, and "Little Jimmie Walker, slick and pliant politician, Broadway butterfly; advocate in public of mothers' pensions and paid in private for easing the sale of putrid and dis- eased meat to those mothers...
...streets of Washington at midnight. Stopping before a house on S Street, he entered. He approached a bedside in an upper room around which a woman and her two young sons were gathered, attending their husband, their father. Just 30 minutes afterward death claimed his due?probably the foremost politician the Negro race has produced...
...mind grasped the situation, in an instant. A glance through the window had revealed to him the fringes of a monstrous crowd that packed the Terminal and the baggage yard, and eddied over into the train sheds. That crowd could have gathered for but one purpose?to welcome some politician or returning hero. But whom? He was aware of no such personage on the train, unless . . . unless...
Died. Henry L. Johnson, 55, famed Negro Politician; in Washington, D. C., of cerebral hemorrhage (see Page...