Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soldier Robinson, however, may never participate in another Arkansas campaign. His consuming ambition is to sit upon the U. S. Supreme Court. And most of wise Washington believes that President Roosevelt has already promised him the first vacancy on that high bench, as a suitable reward for nearly a generation of able Congressional service...
...Islands' Federal judgeship from the Interior Department to the Justice Department. Thereupon Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison persuaded Attorney General Cummings to give the job to T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, a Mississippi Democrat who had lost his seat in the House by running, unsuccessfully, for the Senate. Negro-wise Judge Wilson soon roused the Islanders' fury against Governor Pearson to fever pitch. Looming up as a likely successor if Pearson could be dislodged, he made national news by pouncing on poor Quadroon Mclntosh. Acting as combined prosecutor, jury & judge, Judge T. Webber Wilson denounced the pilferer as "a Judas...
...Wise in the ways of Congress, his Senatorial friends slipped an amendment into the Legislative Appropriation Bill which the House in behalf of its onetime Speaker gladly accepted by vote of 282-to-73. That amendment provides that the Vice President shall have the right to draw, like any Congressman, an allowance of 20¢ a mile for traveling round-trip between his home and Washington for every session of Congress. Since Uvalde, Tex. is reckoned 2,128 miles from Washington, the allowance will put an extra $851.20 into the Garner pocket...
...wish," mused Rev. William MacDougall Hay of Long Hill, Conn.'s Grace Church, writing in the Episcopalian Living Church last week, "some old and wise priest would write a little book of Advice to the Just-Ordained...
Thereupon wise, 50-year-old Pastor Hay, husky, six-foot father of three, proceeded to sketch his idea of what such a book should say. Excerpts...