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...ceaseless intrigues of Saigon politics, he has persuaded some former rivals to join his government and, more important, has given South Viet Nam's fledgling institutions a measure of legality. That gives hope for the future, and makes the government virtually coup-proof for the present. No Saigon politician???not even the anti-Communist opponents of Thieu's government?wants to go back to the bad old days of revolving governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF PEACE IN VIET NAM | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Definitely a politician???a bargainer and adjuster?Chancellor Chamberlain now looks forward to the Imperial Conference at Ottawa next summer as his chief hope for Empire recovery. His object will be to exclude non-Empire goods by an Empire tariff wall around the Mother Country and Dominions, this with the avowed plan of later bargaining with other high-tariff countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Chamberlain's Budget | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

Austrian Surprise. The announcement by Dr. Curtius in Berlin and by Dr. Schober in Vienna of their agreement last week probably surprised more than any one else Austria's boss-politician???beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, onetime Austrian Chancellor and leader of the Christian-Socialist (Catholic) party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Teutons Unite! | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...written of New York City (The Cortlandts of Washington Square). Washington is far from unknown to her since her War work and suffrage activities. But Chicago? where lived her distinguished lawyer-father, Benjamin F. Ayer, where she was born, where she is known for a charming hostess and able politician???is her home and her debtor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...late in the Fall of 1922, some 18 months ago, that this Texan?a round-faced, plump man, somewhere in his forties, looking not unlike a successful, energetic politician???was elevated to the Wizardry from whence he directs the affairs of the Klan, controlling all the Imperial Genii?Klaliffs, Klaziks, Klokards, Kludds, Kligrapps, Klabees, Kladds, Klarogos, Klexters, Klonsels, Night Hawks,?as well as Kleagles, Giants, Cyclopes, Titans Klepeers, Goblins, Dragons, Terrors, Klokans and common Klansmen?supreme over all the Klantons, Provinces and Realms of the Invisible Empire as well as Klonvocations, Klonciliums and Klonclaves as set forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Kleveland Konvention | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

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