Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have only two direct comments to make. First, where do you get that drinking stuff? I drink no more than the average politician and a damn sight less than many newshawks, as you call them. You are at liberty to search my official Naval record, and perform such other spy work as the investigation will require in regard to this matter. There is nothing whatever in the record, on and off, to justify the politely sordid comments you make concerning liquor, and myself. For your information, I am suffering from acute neuritis in my legs which followed a severe case...
...judge on the ground that it had been necessary for him to fly to California to talk with Mr. Hearst. As proof of his journey, he offered a letter Mr. Hearst had written him confirming their conversation. From this document Secretary Ickes quoted Publisher Hearst as follows: "The average politician around him [Landon] is continually urging him to get out and talk. Talk is the method of the average politician, but ... this is a campaign in which speechmaking might do more harm than good. At present the Democrats have nothing to criticize Governor Landon about. You can see that...
Meanwhile Democrats gave Charles Ben ("Cowboy Ben") Ross, an astute Bible-quoting politician who is the first Governor of Idaho ever to serve three successive terms, the Senatorial nomination over blind U. S. District Attorney John A. Carver. Idaho had, Senator Borah noted to his dismay, cast 7,000 more Democratic votes than Republican...
...spite of the fact that Senator Harrison got Bilbo a $6,000 job in Washington when that undersized politician was down & out of office, and in spite of favors he did Bilbo after his election to the Senate in 1934, "The Man" Bilbo renounced Mississippi's senior Senator to back Conner for Harrison's seat. Last week when President Roosevelt suddenly summoned Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee to Washington for a conference on taxes, the Mississippi campaign temporarily became a battle of governors: onetime Governor Conner and onetime Governor Bilbo v. Governor Hugh White and onetime...
...Author. The life of Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette reads like a scenario for one of her novels. She was born 63 years ago in Burgundy, the daughter of a Captain in the Zouaves who was an unsuccessful politician and a student of military affairs. A star pupil in school, she read constantly, wrote compositions "as easily as one would fry an egg," did not realize the character of her talent until later. At 20 she married a 34-year-old author of popular romances who had hoped she would help him socially, found that she was too outspoken...