Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make the flight, Lord Clydesdale had to get permission from his Scotch constituency. Aged 30, two years ago he won a seat in the Commons. At Oxford (where he did not belong to the Pacifistic Union) few expected Lord Clydesdale to become much of a politico. Everyone, however, knew he could fight. In 1924 he won the Scotch amateur middleweight title. He had gone to Glasgow with his friend, classmate and mentor, Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (Fighting for Fun), to enter the championship bout. The reigning champion, a coal miner, gave His Lordship a terrible drubbing, broke...
Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney, Wyoming politico, for First Assistant Postmaster General...
Clerking in a grocery store gave Claude Swanson the money to go to Randolph-Macon. There his close friend was James Cannon Jr., now the politico-religionist. He was long (1893-1905) a member of the House. The Jamestown Exposition was the biggest event of his governorship (1906-10). Twenty-three years in the Senate made him No. 1 Democrat on the Naval Affairs Committee. A Big-Navy man, he was sent as a delegate to last year's disarmament conference at Geneva, made his big speech in praise of battleships...
Someone asked him what the Philippine reaction would be. "How can I tell?" complained the islands' chief politico. "I have not been out of bed. But I know the reaction of the Legislature. If it were put up to them today the bill would be overwhelmingly rejected. Nevertheless I am unwilling to do this. I want them to consult their constituencies and take the issues directly to the people. But if sympathizers continue making speeches and campaigning for acceptance of the act members of the Legislature . . . may force a final decision...
...Last week in Cleveland it was announced that the editors of defunct Parade, local weekly. would begin publishing The Midweek Pictorial Review. Promised for each issue (gratis) was an article by another inactive major politico, Newton Diehl Baker. *The conservative eastern wing of Democracy dreads nothing so much as the possible appointment of William Gibbs McAdoo as Secretary of the Treasury. Last week ''positive assurances" emanated from the Roosevelt camp that under no circumstances would Mr. McAdoo be let into a Roosevelt Cabinet. In Washington there was speculation to the effect that John William Davis might be made...