Word: opportunisme
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"None but men." Such is the rule concerning the servants of the Pope's household. But in 1886 one Teodolinda Banfi became housekeeper for Pope Leo XIII, remained under Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XL Retired last week by age (65*), placed in a steam-heated modern apartment across...
Foreign Minister Stresemann of the Reich, known because of his alert opportunism as "the Lloyd George of Germany," was lauded to the skies by German journals of every party last week when he made public the text of the Russo-German Neutrality Treaty which he and Foreign Minister Tchitcherin of...
Politicians smiled at Mr. George's opportunism, recalled that he won the election which sent him to the Peace Conference with the slogan, "Hang the Kaiser and make Germany pay every farthing!"
Before the meeting, the representatives of the 16 unions met and agreed that they would not join in an attempt to found a third party?that they would revert to Labor's policy long ago laid down by Samuel Gompers: political opportunism, support of any party or candidate likely to...
In the drastic ultimatum to Egypt, Britain made it evident that she intends to govern and stay in Egypt and prevent the Sudan from retrogressing into the savagery from which Lord Kitchener rescued it in 1898. The terms savor, some opinion has claimed, of opportunism. This may be true, but...