Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months' rule, saying: "I shall probably fool around some in the oil business." Indicted with him was Seymour Weiss, who polished Huey's manners, also inherited one-third. No. 3 inheritor was Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, whose prestige & power were still intact last week as Murphy's men plowed through the canebrake courthouses for more evidence, more indictments...
Governor John W. Bricker having cleared the way for him, Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft last week, put his hand to his brow, looked into the future (see cut) and issued his written "consent" to be designated Ohio's favorite son for 1940. Wrote he: ". . . The unpleasant job which lies before the next President of the United States is such that no sensible man could be eager to assume it. Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States...
...Lady Craigie, wife of the British Ambassador, slipped into a light blue frock which was a perfect match for her husband's blue official limousine, and drove with him to Foreign Minister Arita's official residence. There, among flocks of photographers, suave little Hachiro Arita shook Sir Robert's hand, took him upstairs, sat him down on the opposite side of a desk no bigger than a card table...
...last week Hachiro Arita had made things so extra hot for Sir Robert that a French cartoonist, in a picture of the lonely parleys, showed Britain's Ambassador not only coatless, but pantless, shirtless, shoeless-stark naked. Sir Robert: "And if I give you my disgusting banknotes?" Mr. Arita: "Then I shall return your honorable pants...
Queen Caroline's real genius, however, lay in the unobtrusive management of her pompous, stupid consort. When they came to the throne in 1727, she teamed with fat, jovial Sir Robert Walpole, then Prime Minister, to keep the King in line and to strengthen his Stuart-threatened dynasty. She even gave the benefit of her wiles to the miniaturist Frederick Zincke, whom she secretly warned "to make the King's picture young, not above 25." Flattered, George bade the painter "employ all your time in pictures for me, for I will take them...