Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politician's private life, for example, must be above reproach. Otherwise he may be connected with some scandal which suddenly blasts his career. Lawyers, even by connection with great business interests become unavailable as candidates for office...
...Washington. But his affairs in the home borough are being carefully tended. Mrs. McCormick, formerly Ruth Hanna, daughter of the greatest of all political bosses-the late Marcus Alonzo Hanna-is firmly entrenched on the home front. There are not a few who say she is a better politician than her husband...
...author of The Boudoir Mirrors of Washington (TIME, Dec. 31) has written: "Few women in official life have the versatility or dynamic personality of Mrs. McCormick. She is a clever politician, an ardent suffragist, a social leader, an expert horsewoman, an effective writer, and a successful farmer. . . . as a daughter of Mark Hanna, so long autocrat of the G. O. P., she learned the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fascinating life of the 'Little White House.' . . . Not even during its prominence as a political stronghold throughout the Civil War did this celebrated...
...seems certain that the leases will be canceled by political pressure. It is worth any politician's "life" to dare to defend them. In business circles, however, it is freely pointed out that the Government may lose by the cancellation. If the leases are advantageous, to cancel them is a loss. And some of the works, begun for the Government, notably those at Pearl Harbor, will, it is said, be destroyed by weather, tides, etc., 'if the Doheny companies are prevented from completing them rapidly. The result would be a loss of several million dollars of Government property...
...famed Egyptian politician, who controls 90% of the seats in the newly elected Parliament?Said Zaghlul Pasha?was summoned to the Aidin Palace in Cairo, Capital of Egypt, and was requested by King Fuad to form a Ministry, which he did. After leaving the Palace he was greeted by tremendous ovations...