Word: politician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmer-Politician Kline chucked a juicy tomato right back at Brannan. "The implication in your letter . . . that a group of free American citizens cannot objectively discuss both sides of questions of policy unless the discussion is guided by some federal appointee can hardly be made seriously. Our members are remarkably well-informed on public-policy matters and . . . particularly well-informed with respect to your own proposal. It has been thoroughly discussed...
...fight against the Dutch ended, Soekarno turned relatively conservative, broke with the Communists who at first had supported him. To the press, he issued photographs of himself and his handsome family, like any Western politician; recently, he urged his extremist followers to accept the agreement signed last month at The Hague, which set up the U.S.I, and assigned it a place as equal partner with the former mother country in the new Netherlands-Indonesian Union (TIME, Nov. 14). After a lot of fiery oratory which denounced The Hague deal for making too many concessions to the Dutch, the Republican Parliament...
...lined up alongside Crusader Merlin. The Moscowliners, claiming that the bill was all their own idea, ordered all left-wingers to vote against "a typical plague of bourgeois society." The Communists found allies in their old adversaries the Christian Democrats. "We can't afford," said one Christian Democratic politician, "to give the Communists an opportunity to attack us on moral grounds." Of all the senators, only dissident Socialist Pieraccini spoke out against abolition with any real vehemence. "[The bill] would turn all Italy into the sex jungle of Europe," he roared. "We are all senators here," Pieraccini persisted...
...find himself in bad shape if he waited too long to declare himself." And in Key West, Fla., where all political signals come in loud and clear while Harry Truman is in residence, the President told close friends he thought Ike was 1) a wonderful general 2) an amateur politician building hard toward the 1952 presidential race...
...Lose or Choose. Australia's new Prime Minister would be the Liberals' Robert Gordon Menzies, 55, an urbane lawyer and veteran politician. Out of government leadership and onto the Opposition bench goes Labor's Joseph Benedict Chifley, 64, a dignified, pipe-smoking former locomotive engineer with a talent for playing the ponies (Australia is a horse-happy land...