Word: politico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinguished-citizen-to-whose-inspiration-the-gathering-was-due was the silver-maned Politico-Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, first Premier of Republican Poland (1919). He it was who ordered the Wilson statue from the U. S. mountain-molder, Gutzon Borglum, and paid for it. Many years ago he was engaged to give a concert at Stanford University. Subscriptions failed to raise the necessary amount. The treasurer of the concert, an undergraduate working his way through college, presented his own note for the deficit. Paderewski returned the note to the concert treasurer, Herbert Clark Hoover...
...Manhattan guild, their declaration of war is now voiced thus: "To constitute a brotherhood of all members of the medical profession; to provide mutual assistance in religious and professional life; to facilitate intercourse between them and cognate branches of the clergy and others, such as judges, lawyers, educationalists and politico-medical organizations interested in the study and discussion of the medico-religious questions and those touching on the science and duty of ethics. . . . "In general, to promote among Catholic members of the profession such solidarity as may be advantageous to both religion and the profession, [as] medical certification in cases...
...revolution at Canton, in the extreme South, last week was staged by General Chen Chitang, commander of the Eighth Army Corps, apparently in association with potent Politico Wang Chingwei. Both these men used to be intimates of President Chiang, broke with him some time ago, flayed him last week as a Dictator, called his Congress a fake. Upon seizing power, General Chen made the usual pretentions that all adjoining provinces had joined his revolt. In terror from Canton fled the Governor of the Province (Kwangtung), sagacious Chen Mingshu...
...winter long the Senate Insurgents clamored for a special session of Congress in which to continue their discussion of such politico-economic topics as Depression, Unemployment, Power, Farm Relief, Tariff. They failed to get one. Therefore last week in the ballroom of Washington's exclusive Carlton Hotel they, their families and friends to the number of 200 held a special session of their own at which they succeeded in publicizing these subjects more widely, if more briefly, than they could have at the Capitol. Present were college professors, economists, labor leaders, farm representatives, editors, writers, lawyers, politicians, critics...
March 25?Dinner of the Academy of Political Science; at Hotel Astor, Manhattan. Guest of honor: Walter Lippmann of the late great New York World; in appreciation of his contributions (politico-educational) to U.S. life...