Word: politician
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...political leaders, which threatens to result in a wholesale resignation of English generals and a possible overthrow of the ministry. On the one hand it is maintained that the dismissal of General Robertson illustrates the shortcomings of political interference. An efficient general staff is impossible where the carping politician is free to do as he will. On the other, the supporters of Lloyd George demand that he hold tight reins on the English war policy. Labor, pacifist and every type of dissenter find grounds for criticism. Whatever the case may be, the Anglo-Saxon trait of self-criticism and blundering...
...political and social structure of Australia. That country is one which has founded not only its social and economic systems, but its politics, on free white labor. All Asiatic and all semi-servile workers have been excluded. There is no foreign or mobile labor. Every worker is a politician, and every politician has at least sprung from the workers. The maintenance of the Commonwealth on its present basis depends on the presence of an industrial body of workingmen in Australia itself. The Labor party, in short, cannot spare any more political units to fight the war--or thinks it cannot...
...Fusion, stands for unqualified patriotism, and can boast of having given New York the best administration for over a generation. Hill quit, the Socialist, possesses great mental power, but stands firmly at the head of the anti-national movement, both in theory and ideals. Hylan, a typical Tammany politician, has been proved to be in league with the pro-German activities, and has been unable to win the support of any reputable class of citizens; while Bennett is an admitted nonentity, the candidate of the Brooklyn Republicans opposed to Fusion. Such is the situation as the polls open, with...
Whatever vestige of exterior and shallow judgments remains with us should now fall away in the levelling of war. When a thousand men are put in uniform the incipient politician may not measure the great or the near-great by examining whether their shoes are custom-made, or their hats come from New York. The prettiest fop does not show distinction in company front after an afternoon of drill in column and line formations. The assurance gained in talking to paid and obedient servants does not help greatly in telling a platoon of strong and aggressive men to deploy...
...task of suppressing a military power that has long lost regard for the most fundamental and humane rights of other peoples. Sacrifices by American citizens must be made and they will be made readily and joyfully. Yet the sooner the American manufacturer, banker, professor, business man, and politician offer their services and wealth to the United States at war, the sooner will the struggle be over and the fewer the terrible sacrifices entailed...