Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal prosecutors preparing mail fraud cases against certain oil company officials heard that an attempt had been made to bribe other Federal officials in the interest of the defendants. Their investigation resulted in indictments against Queen Helen, Justice Gavin Craig of the District Court of Appeals and a minor politician named Joseph Weinblatt. Last year Justice Craig and Weinblatt were convicted and sentenced, but Queen Helen was freed...
...pseudo-progressive machine and a foremost educator involves the independence of state universities. If these institutions are to contribute to the welfare of the people they serve they must be free from political control. No University worthy of the name can be constricted to the narrow creed of the politician who happens to be Governor...
...Post have done this at the instigation of the Prime Minister. They hear that Viscount Halifax, an eminent Churchman whom Mr. Baldwin sent to India as Viceroy some years ago, either knew in advance what the Bishop was going to say or actually put him up to it. Behind Politician Baldwin the proverbially canny Yorkshiremen discern his famed churchy wife, Lucy. They know that the Prime Minister was furious three weeks ago- when Edward VIII told the jobless of South Wales that more must be done for them than the Cabinet thinks the country can afford. They are willing...
...rejecting a new set of designs for British Army uniforms. He chats about Polar conditions with Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who afterwards calls His Majesty "cheerful" and denies they talked about selling the King's money-losing Canadian ranch. Edward VIII does the duty of dubbing an Indian politician knight (name: Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma), and is icily angry when perspiring Mr. Baldwin rushes in, soon rushes off hatless again to consult the Cabinet, rushes back and confronts Edward VIII in their angriest scene thus far. The Prime Minister applies to a twice-divorced woman the fighting words "damaged goods...
...dependable leaders in this commonwealth. They have rarely won official distinction. In the sixties and seventies and eighties they were called 'the silk-stocking democrats,' men of education, of talent, of character, of vision." I doubt if you would call that the description of a second-string politician...