Word: pol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handful of newsmen who have covered the White House since he first took office, the President gave a series of individual "farewell interviews." Christinas spirit or no, Old Pol Truman could not resist the opportunity to repeat his charge that General Eisenhower had indulged in "demagoguery" during the campaign. He devoted most of the interviews, however, to proud reminiscences of his Administration. "Suppose you had it all to do over again, would you change anything?" asked the New York Times's Tony Leviero. "No," said Harry Truman...
Corruption: "Whose fault is it that we get what we deserve in Government and that the honor and nobility of politics at most levels are empty phrases? It is not the lower order of the.genus pol, but it is the fault of you the people. Your public servants serve you right. Indeed, often they serve you better than your apathy and your indifference deserve, but I suggest that there is always time to repent and amend your ways...
...inspired thousands of them to crowd, hot-eyed and eager, into the fray. Last week they were ringing doorbells, raising money, making speeches, ostentatiously smoking Eisenhower and Stevenson cigarettes and, in Texas, punching each other in the nose at cocktail parties. It was enough to make an old pol shudder. So was Dick Nixon's financial "striptease," which had set candidates about the doleful business of disclosing the catalogue of their worldly goods...
...this election for America." He chose as his text two sentences from a Stevenson speech at Los Angeles in which Adlai had said that the "honor and nobility of politics" had become "empty phrases," and that this was the fault not "of the lower order of the genus pol" but of "you, the people." Said Eisenhower: "Are you to blame for allowing nation after nation to fall to the Communists? . . . Are you to blame that . . . our country has no clear, positive, practical program for peace? . . ." On each major issue, Ike asked the same question: Are you to blame? Each time...
...Louis, Old Pol Finnegan was indicted for misconduct in office (the principal charge: he sold his influence to help big taxpayers get RFC loans), was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison...