Word: demagog
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...political problem is likely to be how to get along with APRA, which helped him win because he promised to legalize outlawed parties. It was to crush APRA that Odria took over in 1948, but APRA leaders now claim that the party has outgrown its old socialistic, demagog ic, intolerant ways. If the party should again make itself too obnoxious to the army, a swing back to military rule would be all too probable...
...Charles E. Coughlin boasted that he would swing 9,000,000 votes in the last Presidential campaign, but neither major party made any noticeable effort to enlist his support. When election time rolls around, the man upon whom wise political bosses count is not the howling demagog, but the obscure little wardheeler who, through family, friends and acquaintances, can be counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great...
...Belgium the No. 1 Fascist is personable, passionate young Leon Degrelle, a dynamic demagog with a confident way of dashing about in high-powered cars, bounding up on platforms and generally acting and talking as if Belgium were a ripe plum just about to plump itself by an avalanche of votes into his lap-as Germany plumped into Hitler's. In his campaign speeches last week Orator Degrelle roared that his academic, scholarly opponent Premier Dr. Paul van Zeeland is "tainted with Americanisms," referred to Economist van Zeeland's professorial work at Princeton in scathing terms, accused...
...state has to spend most of his time conciliating the views of supporters so diverse. Challenged by Degrelle and his Rexist Party, however, the Cabinet parties pulled themselves together, urged Professor van Zeeland, who had never run for an elective office, to do so as a personal challenge to Demagog Degrelle. They assured the Premier he would be elected by pledging him their unanimous support, he to run as a "National Democrat...
...Politically, because this feeling of social unrest offers an opportunity to the demagog...