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... politicians to busy themselves organizing political clubs . And clubs sprang up spon- taneously like beer taverns after Repeal . Politics being in that day the national sport , live citizens with social ambitions joined political clubs ...
... politicians to busy themselves organizing political clubs . And clubs sprang up spon- taneously like beer taverns after Repeal . Politics being in that day the national sport , live citizens with social ambitions joined political clubs ...
Page 188
... political habits . Politics , in the last analysis , exists not to furnish the body politic with efficient democratic government , but for its own sake - a kind of worldly " art for art's sake . " Lifeblood to both a political Party and ...
... political habits . Politics , in the last analysis , exists not to furnish the body politic with efficient democratic government , but for its own sake - a kind of worldly " art for art's sake . " Lifeblood to both a political Party and ...
Page 330
... political flux ; old Party lines melted and new ones formed with such rapidity that old Party leaders were regularly abandoned in favor of less prominent politicians who fitted the exigency of the moment . The Republican nominations of ...
... political flux ; old Party lines melted and new ones formed with such rapidity that old Party leaders were regularly abandoned in favor of less prominent politicians who fitted the exigency of the moment . The Republican nominations of ...
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