Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Jr. has his father's chubby face. Philip has the shock of hair. Robert Jr. is a practical politician, knows how all the wheels go 'round, the genial type who gains the personal liking of all who have to do with him. Philip is an orator with so many of his father's traits and tricks of speech as to appear almost a mimick. Combined, they make an almost exact replica of their father...
...other American except the President of the U. S. can command such instant attention for any public statement." This is a third generalization?but what politician does not envy him that...
Every statesman and every near statesman nowadays has his biographers. But it is not often nowadays that a bishop turns biographer to a politician. Yet recently appeared a brief biography* of the late Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, by the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, Mr. Lodge's college classmate, † who retired last month, as Bishop of the P. E. Diocese of Massachusetts...
...Patenaude, Conservative politician, urged a Conservative mass meeting at Lachine, Que., to unite to fight annexation of Canada by the U. S. He declaimed...
...next speaker was what might be called a self-made politician. He was born in the wharf district beneath the island end of Brooklyn Bridge. His truck-driver father died when he was 12. His only education was a brief period in a parochial school. His youth was spent as a clerk in a fishmarket. Then he began to hold electoral office and has held it ever since except for two years. He just grinned, and was human and able. Three times he was elected Governor of his state by impressive majorities. Only lately he fought to a standstill...