Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noncommittal adversary, M. Doumergue, who raced home many necks ahead of the many intriguing dark horses, war horses and white hopes. His attitude seems to have been perfectly correct throughout, though somewhat cool and a trifle restrained. It is a model, in fact, for the perfect politician. Having extricated himself from his party caucus, he was not bound to efface himself when his opponent received the nomination. And when an appeal to his party loyalty was made, to effect his withdrawal, his reply was a master-piece. M. Doumergue observed that he had never advanced his own candidacy, and that...
...reread Mr. Fess's speech and then consider how a man who could make such a speech could act in such an inconsistent manner. . . . The present session of the 68th Congress is reminiscent of the story of the critic who went by request to hear a certain politician make a speech. "Well," said the politician, after he got through, "well, how was it?" "Sound, very sound," said the critic. "Yes," said the politician, and then, hungry for more, he beamed and added, "sound-and what else?" "Nothing else," said the critic. To date, Senator Fess's only reply...
Cheers and laughter. The band commenced to play Oh, You Beautiful Doll. The lady politician continued...
...gifts as a politician were recognized in 1920. She went to the Democratic Convention in San Francisco and seconded the nomination of John W. Davis for the Presidential nomination. She did it in a way that would have been a credit to an acknowledged master of politics, and she did it like a woman and an actress. She advanced to speak, clothed entirely in white, red roses blooming on her corsage...
...Davis was not nominated. But Izetta Jewell Brown went on tour, speaking for James M. Cox, and Franklin D. Roosevelt?another proof of her qualifications as a politician...