Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Franklin D. Roosevelt landed in Florida from a fishing trip and Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak of Chicago was fatally shot while standing by the running board of the President-elect's automobile. Result: a local politician, named Edward Joseph Kelly, was picked by Chicago's Democratic bosses and appointed by Chicago's City Council to fill Cermak's unexpired term. Last week Franklin Roosevelt again landed in Florida from a fishing trip (see p. 13) and Mayor Kelly, standing for the first time for popular election, polled more votes than any other Mayor...
...preserved in ice and sent forward." Author Pratt never hesitates to give his opinion of Civil War personalities, calls General Burnside "a pioneer in the art of personal salesmanship, simply oozing elusive charm and sterling worth from every pore." Benjamin F. Butler was "a classic example of the bartender politician, with one eye and that bleary, two left feet and a genius for getting them into every plate, too important to snub." But he quotes sympathetically a remark of Butler's (who, as commander of the Northern troops in New Orleans, was the mosthated man in that city), when...
...barren of persons warranting recognition that it should be necessary for the university to delve into politics to find someone worthy to receive the honor of being chosen Charter Day speaker. It seems to me entirely out of place that the first woman so recognized should be a mere politician...
...this "made inevitable his election to the Hasty Pudding Club, the college dramatic society that was the goal of all undergraduate Thespians." This sort of slush continues throughout the volume but after a hundred pages the reader starts on the account of his work as liberal politician and prison administrator...
...effect, a private political army to put down any and all anti-Long squawkers. The State's election machinery is so rigged that an outsider can never win. Political scientists may deplore such a perversion of democratic government but they cannot help admiring the shrewd inventiveness of the politician who devised such a state organization...