Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your latest item about myself is headed "No. 43" [TIME, Oct. 5] and you say: "Last week the contradictory novelist-politician offered his 43rd volume in the form of a story of the self-help co-operative movement of California." You are nearly a decade behind the times. The item should have been headed...
...square himself with them. Said the Nominee in his ensuing speech: "I pay tribute to your non-partisan city form of government, its freedom from machine politics and its use of the merit system. But I want to say to you that I have more respect for the machine politician than I do for the lily-handed citizen who boasts that he takes no interest in politics...
Reform in the United States had been long overdue in the postwar years, and no responsible politician would try to set the clock back. It is equally dangerous and foolhardy to attack the agencies of the republic because they have been so long misused. Governor Landon shares a will to reform with a respect for orderly and constitutional government. After the events of the past four years the American electorate should welcome such a combination...
Franklin Roosevelt had begun to demonstrate his skill as a campaigner as soon as he arrived in Syracuse that afternoon. Syracuse's most popular politician is Republican Mayor Rolland B. Marvin. Democratic Nominee Roosevelt tickled Syracuse's pride, assured bi-partisan applause on his progress through the city's streets by bundling delighted Mayor Marvin into the back seat of his automobile between himself and Governor Lehman. Proceeding to Syracuse University to lay the cornerstone of a new College of Medicine unit, he praised local initiative, deftly reminded his listeners that the new building had been made...
...after making plows for 23 years for Deere & Co., George Nelson Peek became president of Moline Plow Co. at $100,000 a year, made General Hugh Johnson his chief counsel. As a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, he naturally became deeply interested in farm problems. As a politician, he began agitating for an export subsidy for the U. S. farmer. When Republicans did not solve the farm problem according to his lights, George Peek became a Democrat. As a Democrat he became head of the AAA. As head of the AAA he quarreled with Braintrusters over the agricultural codes, finally resigned...