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...South, with the intention of dispatching them to New York City to correct the deplorable conditions existing in Harlem. We are sure that the good people of New York will greet our crusaders with the same enthusiasm that the people of Mississippi have displayed toward their do-gooder visitors from Ohio...
...Lehman, who died last week at 85, was a most unlikely sort of politician. He could not remember a name or a face. A small, somewhat heavy man, he had little humor, and almost no time for the pleasantries ordinarily associated with politics. He was a tireless do-gooder, given to rambling speeches about the virtues of liberalism. He had none of the classic grace of Franklin Roosevelt, none of the earthy charm of Al Smith. Yet in his time he was as popular with New York voters as either F.D.R. or the Happy Warrior -and he outlasted them both...
...Curiously, he is not. Partly, the reason is that in the Philippines, as elsewhere, popularity is based on personality rather than on policies. After two years in office, "Da-dong" Macapagal is just not very lik able. Filipinos are dismayed by his lack of humor, and ridicule his do-gooder proclamations calling for "moral regeneration." He is criticized for putting all his friends from his home province of Pampanga into administration jobs, and the charge is hurtful because most other Filipinos think the people of Pampanga are idle, spendthrift and treacherous. Says a Manila businessman: "Filipinos elect Presidents...
...heavy publicity affected Archie? Nope, says Burke, who revealed that after a story in the Times last year dwelling on his personal virtues Archie came to him and asked if he "gave the impression of being a do-gooder." Perish the thought...
...Parliament, Pearson became the bruised leader of a lonely little group. To the Liberal old guard, he was an apolitical do-gooder, with no instinct for the jugular. Pearson himself has described Opposition politicians as "the detergents of democracy," whose job it is to "cleanse and purify those in office. The good Opposition leader doesn't go around looking for belts so he may hit below them, or, on the other hand, looking for a parade merely so he may lead...