Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sturzo, who resigned the leadership of the Partito Popolare (Catholic Party) last July (TIME, July 23), was expected to resume his command of the Party. Behind the scenes he still wields considerable power. Besides being a politician and a priest, Don Sturzo is a passionate lover of music. He is to be seen any Sunday listening to the classical concerts at the Augusteum in Rome...
Henry Cabot Lodge, veteran of Senators, son of the New England aristocracy, litterateur by preference, politician by profession, statesman by courtesy, the "clammy-handed," the cold, the unimpassioned intellectual, the foe of Wilson?is now the friend of Hughes. In the Senate a fortnight ago he undertook a defence of the Secretary of State's policy of nonrecognition of the Soviet Government...
...these,* subtitled His First Biography, is by a Massachusetts politician who served in the Massachusetts legislature with the now President. The other?, called A Contemporary Estimate, is by the political columnist of the Boston Herald. Both are in the nature of biographies. Both suffer from the fact that Mr. Coolidge has never been at pains to provide good material for a Boswell or a Macaulay, and hardly less from the lack of a true Boswell or Macaulay...
...book of Mr. Whiting, while bearing evidence of more painstaking accuracy, is also witness to the fact that at times a journalist can be less interesting than a politician. One suspects an industrious correspondent of poring over back newspaper files and making a conscientious if uninspired summary. At times he is distressingly literal and like Mr. Washburn submits frequent homilies on the humbler virtues. He does not vapor, however, about the broodings of Fate. Some extracts...
Justice: Viscount Nobuaki Makina, a well-known politician and a delegate to the Paris peace conference...