Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political questions Franklin Roosevelt, No. 1 politician of the U. S., has never declared his attitude. At a press conference last week he had, however, something at least titillating to say on both questions...
...socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle since he plunked down $35,000 to help them try, and almost succeed...
Hard Lines. George Earle is not just a politician with an eye on the main chance, nor is he just a puppet of either the Democratic machine or Labor. To swing to the liberal wing of politics, a son of wealth has to be endowed with a considerable fund of convictions. George Earle's convictions on civil liberty, against tyranny of any kind, were demonstrated during his two years as Minister to Austria. There he was so little able to conceal his dislike of Hitlerism that Nazis made threats to blow up the U. S. legation. A dictatorship...
...Neville has a tremendous programme of armament to get through- and his role of managing director is well in the Chamberlain tradition. Neville's family were among Birmingham's biggest industrialists. And Neville himself was for years a business man before he became a politician...
...just come from a talk with the President, and asked for a "few choice words" on the abdication and marriage of the Duke of Windsor. Chatted the longtime Member of Parliament from Sutton Division, Plymouth: "They'll be very few and very choice, because I'm a politician...