Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debate, in the course of which Professor Schumpeter was variously described as "naive" and as possessing "Machiavellian insight", was conducted on the Oxford Union system, which involved a maximum of cross-examination and a the minimum of perorations. Spencer D. Pollard, instructor in Economics, presided...
Around a dinner table in Manhattan frequently gather some 20 of the ace propagandists in the U. S. This unpublicized, high-powered group calls itself the Council on Public Opinion, chairman is the nation's No. 1 publicist, dark, Machiavellian Edward L. Bernays. Others: General Motors' Public Relations Counsel Paul Willard Garrett, American Iron and Steel Institute's John Wiley Hill, Rockefeller...
Although supple and enterprising to the point of being Machiavellian. Dr. Schacht has the mind and technique of an orthodox banker. As Economics Minister he has browbeaten by sheer personality and held in check other bigwigs such as Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley who as long ago as 1933 proclaimed: "He who organizes the profit mentality must go; he is a mortal enemy of the nation!" Nazi radicals like Dr. Ley have been trying to "get" Dr. Schacht all these years, but last week it was not they who got him. so far as correspondents could discover...
Breathless in pace and implications was the swooping Balkan air tour last week of autocratic German Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, whom closest friends call "Willy." In Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Sofia and Budapest the Machiavellian doctor had fun insisting that he flew only to promote "economic peace." Just before he took off for Berlin, however, tactless Dr. Schacht could not resist blurting out what kind of economic peace he promotes. "Do creditor countries desire to renounce their claims against Germany?" he asked sharply. "If so they should say so, as Germany must either be allowed to earn...
Cynics may claim that the appearance of openness and sincerity in the statement is but an indication of agreements of a nature not fitted for public consumption, but there is little reason to believe that the British have Machiavellian designs. Unquestionably they are much disturbed over the potential dangers to their seacoast towns and cities in the rapid increase in the number of airplanes being constructed in Germany, and their plan for a regional pact for air defense is designed to meet this danger. But in this era of nationalism, no nation can be blamed for a close regard...