Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showing in blue and pink how every one of the 3,000 counties in the U. S. voted in 1934, by tables showing how every Congressman voted on New Deal bills. It is simple for Mr. Hurja to find out from these records how deserving of patronage is any politician, how badly he needs help from Party headquarters in his campaign for reelection, how much help he has given the Party in the past...
...Literary Digest last week published a supplement to its main poll on approval of the New Deal (TIME, Jan. 6), showing that of 21,600 clergymen, 70% were opposed to it. This result tended to confirm the verdict of many an oldtime politician that President Roosevelt, because he backed Repeal, tolerated two divorces in his family, goes fishing on Sunday and rarely mentions God in public, will lose considerable support from the Church next autumn...
Eager to get something on Messiah William Aberhart, radiorating Premier of Alberta who won control of that province with "Social Credit" promises of $25 per month to every citizen, is nearly every other politician in Canada. This week they at last had something on "Bible Bill...
...have accidentally given him a sleeping potion just before the fight. It Had to Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group of glossy New Yorkers who exist only in the imaginations of writers like Rupert Hughes, from whose story it was adapted. There is the behind-the-scenes politician (George Raft) whose heart is as big as his racing stable, the patrician young lady (Rosalind Russell) whom he loves, and her unpleasant husband (Alan Dinehart). Rosalind Russell, till a rookie Myrna Loy, and Raft, whose arrogance may be taken as an expression of his delight at not having...
Many a gesture is far more expressive than words. When a young wife starts to sew on tiny garments, all the world knows she will soon become a mother. When a potent politician, invites press photographers into his home and allows them to picture his private life, everyone realizes that he will soon be a candidate for a bigger & better public job. Two months ago Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas thus opened his Topeka home to news cameramen. Last week pictures were taken of carved teakwood chairs and tables, Chinese paintings and embroideries, lacquered boxes, Oriental screens...