Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Official Washington sizzled at the disclosures in the Shearer case. In connection with the Geneva affair came revelations of flagrant Shearer lobbying in Congress. The generalizing minds of Congressmen expanded easily from one lobby to all lobbying. Senators Borah, Shortridge, Robinson, Black, La Follette cried out for more investigations. Senator Caraway of Arkansas and Representative Gibson of Vermont introduced resolutions calling for a "thorough investigation." Soon lobbyists may have to lobby for the very existence of lobbying...
...construction of a new hothouse and later, satisfied that the new house would be the equal of the others in which it is his pleasure to grow pears and grapes, he strolled past the chicken yard toward the park. The chickens, of course, were more his wife's affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens, called the "red and white," which Poland has adopted as its "national breed'' as a way of paying him a compliment. His chateau, four stories high, with a wooden chalet roof, was built...
...will show these explanations to be fallacious. The man who would do so desperate a deed of wickedness was a man playing for highest stakes: he was trying to catch Jimmy at work. Notice too that this theory accounts for the nonchalance with which Mayor Walker treated the whole affair: his conscience was clear; he need fear...
Last week this prodigal orator, statesman, financier landed in Manhattan. With him landed also Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, onetime (1924-1928) Secretary of State for War, Sir Harry Duncan McGowan and many another. But no affair of state took Lord Birkenhead to the U. S. Not as statesman but as tycoon came he. For last year, perhaps foreseeing the exit of the conservative ministry and the advent of England's present Labor cabinet, Lord Birkenhead resigned his government portfolio, looked over the many offers from corporations seeking his ability and his reputation, chose finally the chairmanship of Greater London & Counties...
...about the same time a clerk in the Ministry of Finance entered the round sum of two million drachmas ($26,000) in his ledger under the heading Secret Government: Expenditures. News organs throughout Greece were warned by the official censor to publish no account of the affair. Friends of Senator Gheka found him uncommunicative...