Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With one announced candidate off and running and some active inactive candidates shuffling about, U.S. Democrats began to maneuver toward the national convention of 1956. Adlai Stevenson had barely started to run, officially, before some fellow Democrats began to elbow him at the turns and throw clods at him.
Eternity & Everywhere. The curtain rises to a rising ah of delight that passes into a volley of applause. The setting by Jo Mielziner is a striking thing. Instead of painted scenery, he has used a simple cotton scrim that sets the time at eternity, the place at everywhere. The forestage...
The man who brought it off was agile Premier Edgar Faure, a wily practitioner of parliamentary maneuver. After squeaking through three confidence votes in less than three weeks, each time constructing his majority from a different grouping, Faure hoped that new elections might give him a working majority. The possibility...
When the bill came to a vote, the right was primed to claim that its support of the government had created a new kind of de facto Italian coalition. But at this moment, Nenni demonstrated his masterful grasp of parliamentary maneuver. Before a surprised Chamber of Deputies, a Nenni Lieutenant...
Appearing in baggy tweeds and unshined shoes, Clint Murchison told for the first time how he had happened to buy the Central stock. It was, he insisted, a strictly run-of-the-mill investment, and not a slick maneuver to help Young win the Central. In fact, said Murchison, he...