Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indeed, when seven members of California's Bohemian Club* were asked to write on a slip of paper the name of the most potent westerner of the present generation, five of the ballots bore the name of Paul Shoup...
Please furnish your readers with an equally impartial write-up of Senator E. D. Smith, also of South Carolina; how he voted on numerous important bills; how he is regarded by unbiased observers, what, if any, constructive legislation stands to his credit...
...Smarting under the lambasting given his pet legislation. Chairman Reed Smoot came to the Tariff Bill's defense: "I want to put the American people on guard against a deliberate campaign of misrepresentation. . . . Criticism is inspired by propagandists of selfish groups. . . . We are joined in the intention to write the best tariff bill ever enacted...
...used to it, what with staying in my office in Washington until 12 o'clock almost every night. This experience will be invaluable to me when I start lecturing again in the fall and also will be fine material for a book I'm going to write. Everybody is so kind to me, this is such a polite city, I really enjoy every minute. Why people even get up to give me a seat in streetcars and subways." On his third newsgathering day, he was sent to interview one Lillie Anderson, just arrested on her 24th intoxication charge...
...Verdun). Now aged 53, he continues in the French Senate, a potent member of the foreign affairs committee. His book about France's Mirabeau might be in a measure paralleled in the U.S. if Senator Borah should break the tradition of inartisticness in U. S. politics and write a frank, intelligent, amusing life of Tom Paine...