Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every professional lobbyist, every professional politician and every representative of greed and monopoly is hoping and praying that your work will be a failure. . . . Your constituents do not expect perfection. They know that it is human to err, but they do expect and have a right to expect absolute honesty, unlimited courage and a reasonable degree of efficiency and wisdom. . . . From now on Nebraska has a right to expect a business administration...
James M. Curley, former Massachusetts politician and Governor, last night issued the following statement...
...cause for his sons to withdraw from Cambridge. Professor Seavey's letter of apology and acceptance of the entire blame should end the affair at once. In addition, his hope that the resigned-to-be will return marks him as a true Boston gentleman, if not a better politician than Mr. Curley...
...assert that I am or was corrupt," the politician stated, "but there was a nasty implication in his words." Commenting on his son's career, he said, "My son was doing well in his class work, and seemed to his father at least to give good promise of one day becoming a successful lawyer." He added that he had advised his son to withdraw from the Law School...
Governor Browning never got to the conference of Southern Governors. Next day. besieged by politicians, he fled back to Tennessee. At Knoxville, his first stop, he was of course reminded that Knoxville's Captain A. Mitchell Long, lawyer and politician, would make a fine Senator. The newspapers told him that Nashville's Albert H. Roberts, ex-Governor of Tennessee, had publicly proposed himself for the job. Many others pressed claims privately. At week's end Senator Bachman's sudden taking off was mourned by no one more than Governor Gordon Browning...