Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laws, 5 times Doctor of Jurisprudence in European universities, Oxford Doctor of Letters, Prague Doctor of Philosophy, Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor, recipient of five decorations from crowned heads, member of every U. S. learned society of any note and of several European hierarchies, publicist, moralizer, politician, pedagog, Bohemian, philosopher, will look upon this 64th year of his life as not the least satisfactory. In Paris, last week, with much ceremony, he was inducted to the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, to which he had been elected in 1923. Only two U. S. celebrities had entered...
Gradually, the country began to realize that a prominent politician had died, that a brilliant actor had shuffled off the scene, that a fiery orator, a leader of great causes, a maker of great troubles had disappeared?that also, the status quo of which he was a part had come to an end, and politics was in the remaking...
...Winifred Mason Huck, young and clever and ready to proclaim and stand for certain ideals that many of us applauded, served a fraction of a term in Congress because she was the daughter of a politician with a following-a following which she inherited at his death. Women neither selected nor elected...
...editors, Somogyi and Basco, which occurred in February, 1920* That so serious a charge could go unchallenged was, of course, impossible. The Government ordered the arrest of M. Beniczky, but not on the charge of accusing Admiral Horthy. He was allegedly arrested for an old crime of slandering a politician, for which he had been sentenced to 14 days in jail. This weird procedure created almost as great a sensation as did the charge against the Regent...
...held great offices of state. It was complained that he was autocratic; that he was wont to act without consulting the chapter, and to use the seal of the foundation as if it were his own. Even more, complaint was made that he had come to be a politician and a man of the world, more busied with government and politics and society than with the objects of the foundation over which he presided...