Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidates running for the office of mayor of Boston, the one by all odds best suited for this job is Malcolm E. Nichols, '99. Although admitedly a politician, he is of the school which the city needs most in its present crisis. As a Republican he offers an end to the Democratic despotism that has prevailed for so many years. His associations are clean, and his political indebtedness is not such that he will be forced to fill municipal offices with the dregs of Boston...
Libel suits involving public officials and prominent persons are almost certain to create a stir. But there is more than mere slander in the Narragansett fracas. The fight between two unscrupulous persons, one, a hot-headed politician, and the other, a person who, many believe, is trying to buy his way into politics, is bound to be no ordinary fray. Each man has demanded the removal of the other, with aspersions on character and integrity freely cast. Each man has defied the other, and each has taken up the other's dare. The courts have reversed the decision...
...liberal statesman, not a liberal politician; a liberal and progressive in the very best sense of the word...
...insure some New Deal successes, although Gubernatorial Candidate L&233;vitt himself got only about 10,000 votes. For his services the New Deal, in a hasty move, took Mr. L&233;vitt to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, himself a onetime Connecticut politician. Before long, zealous Dr. L&233;vitt was circularizing Connecticut voters with an appeal to form a new party, inviting replies to be addressed to him at the Department of Justice. The Democratic Administration eyed this move with disfavor. Prof. Lévitt resigned to run unsuccessfully for Congress...
...Little Rosie") Rosewater started the Omaha Bee ("Industry, Frugality and Service") in 1871 to further his dabblings in old guard Republican politics, carried the paper to national fame before his death in 1906. The politically powerful Bee began to slip under Son Victor Rosewater, did little better under millionaire Politician Nelson B. Updike who bought it in 1920, and was not helped when Updike merged it with the moribund Daily News, a onetime Scripps unit...