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All his life he has lived politics. A stripling lawyer out of Atlanta Law School, he went to Washington at 21, became chief clerk in the House post office. He learned more ropes as secretary to a Congressman, went back to Georgia to be a deputy U.S. marshal, city attorney...
Mr. Kittredge was a lively debater in Faculty meetings, especially in his earlier years of service under President Eliot, and I often wish I had kept a record of some of the incidents in which he played a part. The Faculty was then a smaller and less formal body than...
Of all these committees Tom Connally's Foreign Relations is the most crucial. Texas' Connally looks like a genial, old-fogy, movie Senator, but he is not. A thoroughgoing progressive (Southern style), he is known as the best rough-&-tumble debater in the Senate. With 24 years'...
Chief debater against conscription was neutral Eire's gaunt Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. Said he to a jammed session of the Dail Eireann: "The six counties [of Northern Ireland] are a part of Ireland. . . . No act of Parliament can alter this fact. In the six northern counties there...
Chief debater for conscription was Northern Ireland's Prime Minister John Miller Andrews. Said he of Prime Minister de Valera's speech: "In my opinion this was unwarrantable interference. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom; its constitutional position has been clearly defined and established by statute...