Word: polity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pendergast, jailed for income tax fraud, was politi cal boss...
...misappropriating church funds, last December 30-year-old Mario Politi was removed as administrator of the Vatican Library, sentenced to four years and four months in the trim little Vatican jail, where he is the only prisoner. Mario Politi expected a pardon from Pope Pius XI last week, on the 10th anniversary of the Lateran Treaty. Day before, Pope Pius died...
With those 47 words emitted last week by Postmaster General Farley, his politi cal mouthpiece, President Roosevelt, master politician, achieved no less than five major political points...
...stirred up. He first proved himself an eminent disturber when he at tended the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1920 as a delegate from the State of Washington. Primary voters had instructed him to support the presi dential candidacy of Senator Hiram John son of California. Disregarding his politi cal pledges, he boldly boomed Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for the Presidency. It was largely on the strength of his agitation that Governor Coolidge was nominated for the Vice-Presidency. President Coolidge later rewarded his boomer with a nomination to the U. S. Circuit Court. More disturbances followed...