Word: quiteness
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...could "Jimmy" get the nomination? If the Governor had removed him he would be legally barred from running to succeed himself. His resignation circumvented that. Boss Curry was silent about another Walker candidacy. Boss McCooey was undetermined. It was reported that Alfred Emanuel Smith was against Walker because he "quit under fire." Republicans and independent Democrats scuttled about to find a winning fusion candidate...
Dutifully Trubee Davison studied law at Columbia, allied himself as a lowly worker with the local Republican machine. He attended the 1920 national convention to watch the big wheels turn. He became secretary to Charles Dewey Hilles, New York's National Committeeman. When Theodore Roosevelt Jr. quit the Assembly in 1921 to go to Washington, Trubee Davison got himself elected to the vacancy. His colleagues found him easy, democratic, willing to work. He was made chairman of the committee on taxation. He kept his bailiwick?the fashionable North Shore of Long Island?friendly and peaceful. Its biggest annual political event...
...Eastern Monroe Doctrine. The League of Nations is not necessary to Japan. We have no occasion to poke our nose into Europe's affairs. We should concentrate our efforts on the stabilization of Asia. . . . 'Back to Asia' is the watchword of our party. We may be forced to quit the League and China may renew her campaign against us. We must prepare for repetition of the Shanghai affair, and it is impossible to expect improvement in our relations with the United States; they are likely to become worse. . . . Extraordinary measures, in which the army and the politicians cooperate, are needed...
...twins, a boy and a girl, born three weeks before. More than 500 of Dr. Shelly's babies appeared. Marveled he: "Think of it! More than 4,000 in 52 years, and more than one-tenth of them here today. There'll be more before I quit practicing...
After Mayor Walker quit the stand, it took John J. Curtin, his white-haired chief counsel, a day and a half to sum up the defense and move unsuccessfully for a dismissal of the charges. Lawyer Curtin talked till his voice cracked. He was voluble but ungrammatically inarticulate. He harangued the Governor as if he were a low-grade juror. Samples of the Curtin argument...