Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most valuable of Hills & Youngberg's contributions to the canal cause was Engineer George B. Hills himself, who also happened to be the New Deal's dispenser of patronage in Florida. Last August when the canal project seemed virtually dead, Politician Hills took 60 canal boosters to Washington. There they buttonholed Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, a Jacksonville man who up to that time had shown no great enthusiasm for a canal across his State. In a tight political spot...
...accept his original offer in such uncompromising terms, to have deleted his name from the list of graduates to whom the letter was to be sent. Though presumably caused by a mere clerical oversight, the incident was a perfect example of how not to treat a publicity-seeking politician, especially when he happens to be "so closely associated with the leadership" of a great and proud nation...
...reserves for which he had been frantically wiring ever since the Ethiopian War started were finally sent him month ago. His immediate superior was no longer the goat-bearded Fascist Politician Marshal de Bono, but a personal friend and fellow regular, stocky Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Best of all, he had just won the first definite complete victory of the entire Ethiopian campaign, and with regular army troops...
...letters to the press, in his continued insistance that Mr. Paley is neither honest nor independent, (despite the fact that more Republicans than Democrats have spoken and are scheduled to speak in the future) has given up his claim to consideration as a gentleman and dubbed himself a politician pure and simple. Discontented with impartial treatment, he has reduced himself to the level of the meanest country mud slingers by maligning Columbia publicity because he could not get partial treatment...
...Speaker Byrns prepared to call for a voice vote, a stocky, red-faced, small-chinned, little figure popped out of the cloakroom, began shouting: "Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker!" It was Ohio's Representative Martin Leo Sweeney, oldtime Cleveland politician, apostle of Father Coughlin and Dr. Townsend who, as national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, made 1,000 anti-British speeches before going to Congress...