Word: servants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Servant. Biggest delegation at the peace conference is that of the U. S. It includes, however, more supernumeraries than potent workers. It includes "The Honorable'' Alexander F. Whitney, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen so that labor will not feel left out; Adolf A. Berle Jr., former brain-truster, because he wanted to go and had earned the right as a friend of the New Deal; Hon. Elise F. Musser, State Senator from Utah because she had worked hard in the campaign; Michael F. Doyle, international lawyer from Philadelphia and Dr. Charles G. Fenwick, professor...
...over his rights, Napoleon outsmarted his jailers almost from habit, played on the sympathies of Europe, started such rumors that presently a large body of troops and a good-sized fleet were assembled to prevent an escape that was literally impossible. Napoleon would hide from his guards, dress his servant in his clothing, start a panic, then shake his head gleefully over the stupidity of the English. Such small victories tightened the restrictions around him. His last struggle was his five-year fight with short, redheaded, pompous, shifty-eyed Sir Hudson Lowe, which ended with Napoleon's death...
...saying he named Democrat Prentiss M. Brown to begin his Senate term a month and a half ahead of time. Reason: Mr. Brown would thereby gain seniority rights over other Senators who take office in January, thus adding to '"his value as a servant of the State...
...Maharaja of Travancore like his "basket system." Tradition decrees that an Indian subject calling upon his ruler must present a gift and the Nizam of Hyderabad is notorious for extorting enormous sums by this means from his subjects. A subject of the Maharaja of Travancore is met by a servant with a basket containing gifts purchased by the Maharaja for "presentation" to himself. The subject chooses one of these gifts, enters, presents it, and the gift then goes back into the Maharaja's basket to be presented innumerable times to His Highness by subsequent happy subjects...
...Minister of Agriculture, Walter Elliott, the tall, taciturn, sagacious Scot who has long been considered one of the Conservative Party's ablest younger men, was shelved by giving him the sinecure Secretary of State for Scotland, and the Prime Minister made his especial favorite at the Treasury, Civil Servant William Shepherd Morrison the new Minister of Agriculture...