Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buxom Mrs. Norton, no tearful, bumbling matron but a toughened politician of Mayor Frank Hague's hard-boiled Jersey City school, well knew what was about to happen. For while her New Deal colleague, ancient Adolph Sabath of Illinois, sat at the head of the long billiard-baized table as Rules Chairman, all eyes watched the committee's real overseer, Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Georgia, head hatchet-man of the conservatives...
...have often had the thought that for the president of the university it would be a good thing if we got a man who was a teacher instead of a man who was a politician." Then the Governor (who had been ribbed by the university's funnypaper for his ungrammatical utterances) added: "It's hard for a man who hasn't had an education to cross swords with a great and learned man as he is. I have my ideas about education...
When "Wen" went to the State University in Bloomington in 1909 he soon became a practicing politician as well as a conspicuous figure. He wore a loose-necked red sweater, chewed tobacco, preached socialism from campus soapboxes. By the time he became sophomore he was a leader of the campus "barbs," roared against the fraternities, preached revolt against the university faculty. One of the fraternity leaders (Beta Theta Pi) was his aristocratic friend Paul Vories McNutt, whom Willkie still likes to josh at Indiana University alumni dinners. But in two or three years Willkie's socialism wore...
...lank, long-nosed Southern politician, weak from fever, stood on the deck of the cruiser Indianapolis just outside New York Harbor and proudly saluted 81 steel-gray warships in the mightiest display of naval strength ever to pass before a President. By then everybody but pacifists agreed that Claude Augustus Swanson, who had got his job for reasons of political expediency, was one of the best Secretaries of the Navy the U. S. ever...
...Hereafter Herr Hitler will be known simply as The Leader, will sign his name that way and all newspapers, documents and speakers must refer to him only by those two words. Official explanation for the change: "The title of Chancellor gave Hitler an air of being a functionary or politician, whereas he is the beloved leader of his people...