Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Democratic contenders for the Governorship, Governor Ruby Laffoon and his potent machine backed an oldtime politician from Russellville named Thomas S. Rhea. Rhea's chief adversary was young (37), spectacular Lieut. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler of Versailles. Son of a rural mailman, red-headed "Happy" Chandler earned his way at University of Kentucky Law School by leading a jazz band, playing the piano. He coached the Centre College football teams of 1922-27, got himself elected to the State Senate in 1929. There he cultivated Ruby Laffoon, with whom he rode into Frankfort two years later...
Married. Bernard B. Robinson, 42, Chicago securities salesman, lobbyist for Associated Gas & Electric Co. who told the Senate investigating committee that his chief, roly-poly Howard Colwell Hopson, had "a fine disposition" (TIME, Aug. 19); and Anna Kremer Young, daughter of J. Bruce Kremer, Montana lawyer-politician; in Reno...
...POLITICIAN: HIS HABITS, OUTCRIES AND PROTECTIVE COLORING-J. H. Wallis-Stokes...
...love of politicians for the flag, the home, motherhood and other sanctified institutions has been a favorite theme of U. S. satirists since Lowell wrote The Biglow Papers. That this particular vein of fun has run thin became apparent last week with the publication of a ponderously humorous volume, patterned on Machiavelli's The Prince, purporting to bring to aspiring officeseekers the same quality of sagacious instruction, supported by instances drawn from practical politics, that the cynical Italian gave to the despots of his day. A tedious book, overlong, repetitious, The Politician contains a few hilarious examples of Fourth...
...candidate for Mayor WillB Hadley was no politician to stir apathetic Philadelphians to white heat. He was a master of figures, not words, a shy, frugal, philosophical man, whose chief joy was his 650-acre farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. If he was to have a political career he had to be dramatized. So he acquired a curious jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson. Mr. Wilson began issuing statements for Controller Hadley that made news: How city funds bought a barber's chair for City Solicitor Augustus Trask ("Dandy Gus) Ashton; how Coroner Schwarz...