Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candidate," announced a certain politician last week, "for Governor of Ohio, and the Democratic Ticket. . . . I am conscious of the fact that my personal political success is of no consequence to the public. Whether I win or lose makes no difference in the forward march of Ohio, unless I can make a definite and substantial contribution to her progress...
...Though Stefan Raditch is still the strongest politician among the potent Croats, he fails to evolve a majority which will support him and confesses that he cannot form a cabinet...
...have never been accused of being a diplomat or a politician, and, while I have had the honor of holding the office of Secretary of State of the United States, it is well known that it is not necessary that he should be a diplomat, and when I was in that office I think there were no politicians in the department, least of all myself...
George William Goethals, son of a Dutch emigrant, attracted the roving notice of a Manhattan public school teacher. This percipient pedagogue besought a politician, and presently George W. Goethals was registered at West Point. A harassed and instinctively American registrar concluded that anyone inscribed as George W. must have been baptised George Washington. Hence an able Dutchman was graduated, second in his class, George Washington Goethals, and lived to become the second most eminent George Washington of the U. S. Army...
...well for them to do. She has been consulted by Mary Garden, Geraldine Farrar, Eva Le Gallienne, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Cardinal James Gibbons,* John Burroughs, Lillian Russell, Tallulah Bankhead, Seymour Cromwell (onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange), many a Wall Street man and Tammany Hall politician, Philip Payne (onetime editor of the New York Daily Mirror, whom Evangeline Adams warned against flying in the ill-fated Old Glory). Senators, high U. S. executives and business potentates, whose names she keeps secret, have sat facing her. Her outstanding predictions include the deaths of King Edward...