Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that the Reverend Father either become a politician and discard the collar, where I think he will be in his element, or return to the fold and follow the Great Man of Galilee...
...other words a peerage for Sir Eric was to be swapped for a chairmanship for Sir Christopher. This sort of thing is often tolerated in cases where the swapper is an ordinary politician; but, the report released by the Prime Minister declared: "We think the whole course of proceedings shows, on the part of Bullock, a lack of that instinct and perception from which is derived a sure guide by which the conduct of Civil Servants should be regulated...
...autocracy or Fascism. To him Al Smith, Mark Sullivan and Republican alarmists who proclaim the New Deal's march toward dictatorship are simply shadow-boxing with political phantasmagoria of their own making. As for Franklin Roosevelt's broken campaign promises of 1932, he asserts that any politician who maintains complete consistency "assumes his own infallibility and will destroy his country if he stays in power." An invitation to him to deliver a Lincoln's Birthday address last winter was promptly withdrawn after a brief statement of his political views. Explained Republican Taft: "They wanted someone who would...
Died, John Patrick Sullivan, 61, potent Louisiana politician, archfoe of the late Huey Pierce Long, onetime (1911-12) Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks; after a sunstroke; in New Orleans...
...earlier characters do not even appear. Tycoon Bertrand's automobile factory booms, and Bertrand's fortunes are furthered by joining forces with Champcenais and the sinister armament-maker, Zülpicher. Briand is shown briefly at the Republic's helm, while Gurau, the ambitious politician, bides his time until he can get the Cabinet post he wants. The Abbé Mionnet, sent to tighten up discipline in a provincial diocese, nearly gets in trouble himself when rumors of his liaison begin to get about. Laulerque, who has joined the secret organization that is to save the peace...