Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegation's seat in the Assembly of the League of Nations during its present session. British efforts to bar the Ethiopians, half heartedly seconded by the French, were called by veteran New York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Elliott "a bit of jugglery so contemptible that even a Tammany politician might have blushed to be connected with...
...romance by the lawless exploits of Billy the Kid. Belonging to that class of writers who, unable to choose between the world of affairs and the literary life, have attempted both and succeeded in neither, Sinclair is known in political circles as a novelist, in literary circles as a politician, whose promise or threat is always greater than his accomplishment...
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. It is a typical Sinclair novel. It has a good deal of the sunny, buoyant, irrepressible uplift spirit that has distinguished all his writing since he published The Jungle in 1906, the journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative...
...foot, 240-lb., 61-year-old master politician, standing near the President of the U. S. in Harvard Yard, had between him and the U. S. Senate a slim political stripling who. with an umbrella over his damp silk hat, was a mere marshal among Harvard's alumni in the crowd below...
...therefore, an English politician declares that Germany does not need colonies because it is free to buy raw materials, then the declaration of this gentleman is about as intelligent as the question of the well-known Bourbon princess who at the sight of the revolutionary mob roaring for bread remarked in surprise, why, if the people did not have bread, did they not eat cake...