Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Viscount Shimpei Goto, 73, of Tokyo, "Roosevelt of Japan," sometime Foreign Minister, Civil Governor of Formosa, railway president, sanitation expert, subway builder. Boy Scout organizer, potent non-partisan politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; en route to Kyoto...
...President Hoover last week granted a pardon, his first, to Nat Goldstein. Missouri politician, convicted in a liquor conspiracy case in St. Louis. Goldstein was a Lowden delegate at the 1920 Republican National Convention to whom $2,500 was paid...
Crown Council Question. The position taken by President Cosgrave is that the Irish Free State will not recognize as competent to represent the British Crown any Council not composed exclusively of members of the Royal Family. The presence of such a politician as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin is, in the Irish Free State view, something not to be endured without the explicit and joint consent of all the British Dominions...
...talked breathlessly of the chance that David Lloyd George may "come back." Certainly the odds show that he may quite reasonably expect to hold a balance of power between Laborites and Conservatives. None knows how to exploit such a situation better than the little Welsh attorney; the only major politician who has had stamina enough really to survive the war. Last week his energy and fire easily surpassed that of any rival; and both Laborites and Conservatives were in deadly fear lest the man who won in 1918 by promising to "Hang the Kaiser!" should hornswoggle the country, outsmart everyone...
...Massachusetts. Since 1923 he has been Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He could have become Speaker this year had he chosen, and Governor Fuller once asked him to run for Attorney-General. He did not choose. Detached of mien, not outwardly the politician, he appeared to feel that his post was at the purse-strings of his commonwealth and there he stayed, vigorously, vigilantly economical. That was why Harvard was so eager to have him as treasurer. The answer to why he would leave the Legislature for the university is summed up more...