Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Western Republicans from states adversely affected by reapportionment secured the adoption of the Hoch amendment, though the Constitution had specifically designated "persons," not citizens, as the basis for Congressional representation. Said New York's Congressman O'Connor: "It's a wonder to me that any self-respecting alien stays in this country." But the assault of the South and the West provoked a counter attack from the North and the East. Up rose Representative George Holden Tinkham, Massachusetts Republican, to offer another amendment providing that States which disfranchised citizens should have their Congressional representation reduced. This amendment...
...unwieldy group of some 44 Cabinet ministers and ministers not of Cabinet rank. Oldest in the MacDonald Cabinet is Lord Parmoor, 76, Lord President of the Council; youngest, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 32, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; average age, 56. Of the new Cabinet, many were self-educated, born in poverty. The Prime Minister was born in a Scotch hut. One of his ministers was an engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However...
Henderson, Arthur, grey-mustached, placid Foreign Secretary. "Uncle Arthur" Henderson is one of the oldest Labor M. P.'s in the House; he took his seat in 1903. Self-educated, starting life as a Scotch iron moulder, he succeeds the blundering, monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain as director of Britain's foreign policy...
...speeches in behalf of reapportionment in the Senate were marked with more constitutional zeal than oratorical brilliance. His chief address brimmed with these phrases: "The spirit of the Constitution," "The integrity and equity of the House," "an outrage upon the Constitution," "A solemn, sober challenge to the American conscience," "self-government crumbles...
...oughts and the 'teens. But it has been proved often enough that a small group of graduates may cripple any program of an institution by unintelligent opposition. Princeton and Harvard must continue to appear slightly absurd as long as some of their adherents persist in the mistaken zeal of self-righteousness...