Word: parliamentarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studied law, got her de gree from the University of Texas, became parliamentarian of the Texas Legislature and wrote a book on parliamentary law. At 22, Oveta codified Texas' banking laws. At 24, she ran for the State Legislature and was beaten - the first setback in a face-ever-forward career...
Colonel Wedgwood's career shows some of the extraordinary vesatility of his distinguished ancestor, and it would be correct, as a result, to refer to him as a naval architect, a gallant army officer, an able historian, a tax expert, or a skillful parliamentarian, but not "merchant" and not "potter...
...strategist of the New Deal, who had carried out a welter of partisan tasks for the President. But it was agreed that he was mellowing, and it was considered likely that the Court would have as much influence on him as he had on it. Senator Byrnes, an able parliamentarian, a remarkably effective Senate leader, a supporter-but not invariably-of Administration measures, was no judge, had no legal reputation. But he was not primarily concerned with social reform, and there was no question of his independence...
...Deal Wheelhorse Alben Barkley. At a St. Louis campaign rally attended by 300 party hacks and laborites, he conferred the Roosevelt blessing on Candidate Truman. But Alben Barkley was not happy to find himself in the same camp with Champ Clark. They are bitter enemies, for Clark, a shrewd parliamentarian, has consistently made the clumsy majority leader look ridiculous by outmaneuvering him in the Senate...
Minister Cross's speech hit the House of Commons as it lolled in what one Parliamentarian called "the genial vacuum of emotion" left behind War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha's sudden resignation. Out of the speech leaped one lightning sentence which made the vacuum crumple in a thunder of applause: "At the end of four-and-one-half months, Germany is in something like the same economic stress that she was in after two years of the last...