Word: pol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidate Garcia himself was at a command post five miles away playing chess with his military aide, broke off the game briefly to intervene when he feared that his floor handlers might ineptly let the first ballot be taken Sunday morning instead of Saturday night. Warned experienced Old Pol Garcia: "You can never tell what will happen during twelve dark hours...
...Pol-to-Pol Whisper. There were, in fact, many gasps and a few shudders when Brownell became Attorney General. He was a professional politician entering a Justice Department already reeking and rocking from too many professional politicians. Brownell had been the strategist for the presidential campaigns of Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; he was the hotel-suite mastermind who liked to note that he had never spent so much as a night on a campaign train. Politician Brownell was treated like one of the boys when he came up for confirmation by the politicians of the U.S. Senate. They went...
Robert Wagner, New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman, Old Pol James A. Farley. Said Lord Mayor Briscoe, before leaving for Boston and more celebrations: "If the Jews and the Irish can stick together, New York has a great future...
William C. Brady, II: Pres. New Cons. Club; HSC Academic Freedom Comm., Chair.; Newman Quarterly, Ass't Ed.; Pol. Forum, Chair.; PBH Social Service Comm., Ass't Chair.; Interhouse Debate Council; Club Hispanico, Pres...
...suavely conventional Mr. Stevenson will have little trouble from the transparently opportunistic Mr. Lausche. The Democrats will be much better off running a paper doll that they can call their own than a Cellophane pol whose flirty-flirty eyes wink faithlessly at gods, men and political orthodoxy...