Word: demagog
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...world knows for sure is that Hitler has somehow managed to capture the submarine of state. The Berlin Diaries, purporting to be the genuine journal of an anonymous Berlin War Office official, gives an eyewitness day-by-day account of the muddled machinations that made a loud demagog into Germany's Chancellor. Sure to be labeled propaganda or forgery by indignant Nazis, the essential authenticity of The Berlin, Diaries is vouched for by Edgar Ansel Mowrer, onetime Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Daily News and head of the Berlin Foreign Correspondents' Bureau until expelled from Germany last year...
...John Klorer and Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley seeking re-election for the first time. Buzzard-bald Mayor Walmsley heads the Choctaw Club, New Orleans' Tammany. In 1930 the Choctaws joined up with the Long State machine but cut loose last summer when it became apparent that the blatant demagog's personal prestige was definitely waning as a result of his outrageous carryings...
...vantage point where he became the legal sponsor of these drastic acts by his own type of doggedness. His well-barbered white hair, businesslike dress, calm manner, conversational public speeches bear no resemblance to the traditional windblown locks, flapping coat tails, and fiery eloquence of the silver-tongued demagog. It is true that his first political campaign, conducted in his native Indiana when he was still at the unripe age of 19, consisted of 28 stump speeches in support of William ennings Bryan. But he did not choose to imitate Bryan. In 1901, aged 25, having graduated from DePauw University...
TIME refers to Detroit's radio priest, Father Coughlin as '''demagog." For this appellation the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary gives as definitions: "1. One who leads the populace by pandering to their prejudices and passions; an unprincipled politician. 2. Anciently, any popular leader or orator." Which definition was in the mind of modern up-to-the-minute TIME's usually accurate reportorial staff? I think an answer is due a subscriber and reader of long standing. I make no further comment here on this point lest I appear to be trying to put the answer...
...five long years Louisiana has been held fast in the political fist of its crudest, rudest demagog-Huey Pierce ("King-fish") Long. By last week it appeared that his grip was gradually weakening. His prestige has been badly damaged at home because patronage from President Roosevelt has been going to anti-Long men, a situation which caused Senator Long to blurt out at a Milwaukee veterans' convention: "To hell with the Administration!" And over his head hangs the threat of Federal court action on charges of income tax evasion...