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Republican corruption, farm relief, flood costs; these are only three outstanding topics on which he has remained silent or evasive, doubtless for highly intelligent reasons but with the effect, nevertheless, of making him seem an opportunist. And this effect is borne out by his shifting position on international relations. Once a sturdy Leaguer, he is now a hesitant World Court man, and suspected by newsgatherers of trimming his helm as the breeze may blow, off-shore or overseas. With all his other qualifications, he could well afford to speak out, in simple, declarative English on one or the other side...
...Meanwhile, as the good ship sails on, tempests are brewing for the next election, which must come not later than 1929. A Liberal cloud, once "no bigger than a man's hand," is swelling notably puffed by the "Hearst of England," Lord Rothermere, who recently shifted his always opportunist support from Stanley Baldwin to David Lloyd George (TIME, Nov. 7). Since Labor is not likely to emerge weakened from the coming conflict, a Liberal resurgence would slash deep into the Conservative majority. Before such a slash is attempted, Stanley Baldwin, most negative of British Prime Ministers, must toughen...
...Wobblies now express their political ideas mostly through the Workers' or Communist Parties. But few Wobblies have coherent political or economic notions. Their allegiance to the I. W. W., which is still said to enroll over 100,000, is largely emotional. It results from the I. W. W.'s opportunist tactics in just such areas as Colorado, where more stable, conservative and therefore more powerful but less idealistic labor organizations, are not active or have been replaced by company unions...
Scholar, lawyer, publicist, Anton Smetona threw his very soul into a fight for Lithuania against the Russian autocracy. But, hounded by Tsarist secret police, branded by many as a conspirator, blackened as an opportunist, he stood no chance against the arrayed might of Imperial Russia?not until...
...began with a matter of coal. The President wanted a bill passed giving him power to deal with a coal crisis, should one arise. Horrified, coal operators from and about Pittsburgh caused their lobbyists and Congressmen to gyrate. At this juncture, the fine Machiavellian hand of an opportunist plucked the reins of state. It is believed to have been that of able lawyer and farmer's-friend, Congressman Dickinson of Iowa.* Whoever it was, word was passed that the House farm bloc would vote for a coal-crisis bill. Then the farm bloc offered to block the coal-crisis bill...