Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he be came a practical as distinguished from an Oxford politician. In a variety of positions, many of them important, he has served his country and served it well. Since the War, even during it, he lent his weight and experience to the problem of international peace. In 1923, his King, in recognition of his great services to humanity, made him a peer of the realm and he became Viscount Cecil of Chelwood.? Now, in the 39th year of his public service, a distinguished U. S. jury ? Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard; Judge Florence...
...those sniffers who insist that the politician and the intellectual are at opposite poles of humanity, the nominations for the approaching senatorial election in Connecticut will come as a severe shock. The Republican nominee is Professor Bingham of Yale, whose title is almost a guarantee of his mental superiority. The Democratic nomince is Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent. Neither of them is a mere theorist, however, for they have both engaged enthusiastically in the rough and tumble of political controversies...
...Senate handicapped by the antagonism of a large part of the old guard. Will he win them over? He is as good a business man as Hanna. Will he be as clever a politician...
...great. As he did in 1922, so did he again sweep himself into office, although both times the state went Republican, and in the last case Coolidge ran 600,000 votes ahead of Davis. But Vic? who was farmer and father of 10 chil dren before he was politician, Vic of old Scotch Presbyterian stock, Vic who keeps convicts, mainly ex-murderers as servants in the Executive Mansion, Vic who roars and pounds his desk as if making one unending campaign speech ? induced the people of Ohio to give him some 150,000 more votes than were necessary...
Hogg. CHARACTER: "I think it would be true to say that his intellect has a punch in it, but not his personality. It is the fist of Carpentier, but the soul of Joe Beckett. One feels that if his intellectual equipment had been at the disposal of any ambitious politician it could not have failed to make its mark, and perhaps a permanent mark, on contemporary politics. . . . He suggests in his appearance that he would like fighting and dislike dirt. There is something military in his carriage and something pugilistic in his precise and vigorous face. He is also...