Word: demagogic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and bore a placard: "I am unemployed...
Aside from showing up brilliant "Winnie" Churchill as the demagog he often is, Mr. Henderson performed an international public service last week when he dismissed Baron Lloyd. It was he who last summer forced Egypt to accept the Cabinet of Mamud Pasha, who commanded only 28 seats in the Egyptian Chamber, whereas the "Opposition" led by Mustafa Nahas Pasha is a solid phalanx of 170 Deputies (TIME, July 30, 1928). A far less outrageous deed would be?...
...bald, rich Joseph Caillaux, onetime Prime Minister (1911-12) master intriguer among the Left Parties. Torpedoist Caillaux sank the Sacred Union by forcing four of its members, including Edouard Herriot, to resign in obedience to a caucus of their own party, stampeded by Demagog Caillaux...
...made his demonstration. ... I shall vote for Governor Smith as the man with the greatest demonstrated capacity for political leadership of any I have ever known. . . . He is one of the few great leaders of masses in all history who does not stoop to the tactics of the demagog .... No political leader in the world today, so far as I know-and I know most of them-has as much capacity for mass leadership as he."-Owen D. Young, Board Chairman of the General Electric Co., co-author of the so-called Dawes Plan...
Croatians mourn Raditch as their most potent protector from the tyranny of Serbia, which is the "Parent Kingdom" of that realm called Jugoslavia, which includes Croatia. Jugoslavs of national consciousness believe, however, that Stefan Raditch, whom they deem a demagog, was a pernicious influence, obstructing the eventual union of the Serbs, Croats and other South Slavian peoples. If his murder does not provoke a revolution in Croatia, it may yet prove to have been for the eventual good of the whole kingdom...