Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politician was ruddy, chubby Charles A. Harnett, since 1924 State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. Tammanyite who introduced a song to celebrate the return from Europe of discredited ex-Mayor James J. Walker. Commissioner Harnett has managed to hold his $10,000 job through Tammany's ups & downs, has been well and favorably known to New York's 3,500,000 licensed drivers...
...Presidents the U. S. ever had- orrl the fact that Country Editor William Allen White voted for Coolidge and wrote a partisan biography in 1925, this biography is a sharpshooting, puncturing book, at once the most human portrait of Coolidge the man, the most devastating portrait of Coolidge the politician, and the best account of the Coolidge bull market that has yet appeared...
Career: Homer Truett Bone is a round-shouldered, kindly little man with a gloomy viewpoint. In discussing the state of the world, he is apt to remark: "This is a dark and sombre picture." Politicians, whose squabbling Homer Bone heartily dislikes, do not understand why Bone, of all men, should be afflicted by melancholy. Indisputably his State's most popular politician, he amassed 243,682 votes in the Democratic primary this year to 196,876 for all his opponents. He spends no money in the primary, except for gas and oil, and has just returned a $500 check from...
...when to spring it. Senator Robert M. La Follette also knows the uses of the subtle query. Mr. Dies knows chiefly how to bellow. Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect not just the ear of some baffled layman but the tympanums of that knowing politician, the Head of the Democratic Party...
...Hoover, who himself is no great radiorator, Republican Thomas E. Dewey goes to New York University's Speech Teacher Richard C. Rorden to brush up his microphone technique, reported "Daily Washington Merry-go-Round's" Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. A baritone before he was a politician, Candidate Dewey is generally regarded as a professionally polished, dramatic broadcaster...