Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal Judge William Clark recently dusted off Mayor Hague by specifically enjoining him to let C.I.O. organizers (and other dissenters from the established Hague order) speak, solicit members, carry placards and otherwise exercise their Constitutional rights in Jersey City. Politico Lewis declared it high time to throw all Hagues out of the Democratic Party, to arrange a genuinely liberal political alignment...
...terrible a time the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe had with her children can be vividly illustrated by the statement that she had as many struggling brats as Walt Whitman had unruly ideas. The analogy becomes quite compelling after one has read this discussion of the politico-social ideas of Walt Whitman, in which Mr. Arvin makes it quite clear that the poet's mind was filled by the most numerous and most contradictory feelings on almost every conceivable subject. Mr. Arvin, who graduated from Harvard in 1921, although he does display an admirable understanding of Whitman...
...party from top to bottom, changed its name from National Revolutionary Party to Party of the Mexican Revolution, put in, as his Jim Farley, Luis Inocencio Rodriguez, his longtime personal favorite. If Cárdenas does not run again he might choose Luis Rodriguez as his successor. Another politico who might try to grab the job is Mexico's loudmouthed, posturing, Moscow-visiting Vicente Lombardo Toledano. He claims to lead 1,000,000 organized proletarians in his Confederation of Mexican Workers-by far the most potent force of its kind in the country. It was the President...
Died. John Medill McCormick, 21, son of the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick and Illinois' onetime Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, grandson of Cleveland's late great politico Mark Hanna, nephew of Chicago Publishing Tycoon Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, fourth generation heir of the Patterson-McCormick newspaper empire (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News}; fortnight ago when he and 20-year-old Princeton Student Richard Whitmer fell from a 2,000-ft. cliff in the Sandia Mountains, near Albuquerque, N. Mex. Searchers, directed by Mrs. Simms, took a week to find McCormick's body...
...Bible Bill's" answer to this legal defeat was his spirited invasion of Saskatchewan. Moving East, with his slick radio voice, his politico-religious antics, his lessons on finance & economy, "Bible Bill" drew such huge crowds wherever he moved that he gave faraway orthodox Ottawa the scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would...