Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Politician Sirs...
Your description of Mr. Huxman as a "second-string politician" is not in accord with what we regard the true meaning of that term in this State. "Second-string" is defined by most dictionaries as something inferior or second rate, and the word "politician" is not exactly complimentary. Mr. Huxman is not a "second-string politician"-as a matter of fact he is not a "politician...
...your Oct. 26 issue you published an article on "Lost Laughter" dealing with cartoons, and pointed out that Cartoonist Batchelor had been the outstanding cartoonist from the angle of novelty, largely because of the character he had created-a politician with a silk hat but wearing little else...
...summer of 1935, seven smart Manhattanites, including George McAneny, banker politician, Grover Aloysius Whalen, supersalesman and onetime Police Commissioner, and R. H. Macy & Co.'s President Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most...
...surprise beat out Will G. West for Governor. The tale told in Kansas: no prominent Democrat wanted the thankless job of running against Will West. Finally Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy Helvering, Kansans both, appealed to Huxman, a second-string politician, to make the race. They promised the campaign would cost him nothing, that afterward he would be given a job in Washington with a better salary than the $5,000 a year earned by the Governor of Kansas. On election night Mr. Huxman went to bed happily confident of defeat. He was awakened...