Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Start in life: Lawyer turned planter and politician...
...upkeep. The 60% remainder is about evenly distributed between taxes and interest. About 10% of the whole income goes to various forms of insurance. Inevitably in about 3 years the owner has lost his equity. The reversion of real estate to the banks has made them fail and the politician senses his downfall. Thirty percent of our property is already in the hands of the State. The Mediterranean fly was an excuse to further pauperize the henchmen of the favored politician. We, unless soon relieved of their means of support, shall have an indigent population as fatal to progress...
...point by sheer persistence. Second only to Alabama's Heflin is he as a "darkey story" teller. He is a "regular" Southern Democrat in his votes. In the minority, no famed legislation bears his name. His manner is at times brusque and rough. He is not a keen politician. Impartial observers rate him thus: A conscientious and hard-working legislator who has specialized on one line (cotton), lacking brilliance and breadth to make him an outstanding Senate figure. His speech and thought have not kept pace with a changing South. His term expires March...
...newcomer to the Treasury, Commissioner Eble, whose home is Salt Lake City and whose political sponsor is Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was defeated for the Utah Assembly in 1916. Later he remarked: "That's good. A victory would have changed my whole life and made me a politician." In the Army during the War he served as a captain, afterwards joining the Treasury's War Loan staff. Secretary Mellon sent him to Berlin as a Customs Agent to spot smugglers, to prepare highly complex valuation lists. In 1924 he was back in the U. S. serving...
...diamonds for wear not to his women but to himself. Small and pale, he was a man bound to rise because he conducted his business with only his own future in constant view. He wanted some day to have wealth equal to that of the Big Boy, a Chicago politician who protected gangsters from the legal consequences of any crime but murder...