Word: machiavellianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This revelation of the American banker as a Machiavellian combination of incompetence and dishonesty is shocking, but not unexpected. There is, however, nothing to be gained by heaping contumely on the heads of these men as they don sackcloth and ashes; distrusted by the public, assailed by the government, they are only able to emit feeble chirps about individualism. Rather is this the time for remedial legislation...
Only the National Government's huge following enabled Chancellor Chamberlain to push his measure through the House of Commons. Meanwhile, however, the New York fiscal community began to call Mr. Chamberlain not generous but Machiavellian...
Anthony's mother was the wife of Machiavellian Don Luis da Vincitata, but Don Luis was not his father. His mother died in the wintry Alpine inn where she bore him; his reckless young father saw the point of Don Luis' swordsmanship too late. The nameless orphan was deposited anonymously by Don Luis at a Livorno convent. After a peaceful childhood there he was adopted by old John Bonnyfeather. Scottish merchant in Livorno and actually his grandfather. Both suspected their relationship but neither, out of respect for his mother's memory, ever openly acknowledged it. Anthony...
...field of finance, President Roosevelt has given a good indication of his diplomatic mettle, and at the same time has very definitely strengthened the bargaining power of the United States in the approaching tariff parley with Messrs. Herriot, Bennett, and MacDonald. It was very neatly timed. With seeming Machiavellian finesse, Roosevelt waited until the European statesmen were in Mid-Atlantic, definitely isolated from home counsels, before he announced America's abdication from the gold standard. Their arrival in New York should find them considerably non-plussed...
...they become obsessed with their own drivel, they take themselves seriously, grow dull and tiresome." Or else they overplay their hands, poisoning themselves with their own publicity. It is possible that this is already happening to Huey Long. If this article demonstrates no other sad truths, it shows, with Machiavellian clearness, that Huey is no hard-working rough diamond, but rather a physical embodiment of the law of cunning and the law of force...