Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty Political? After a general gasp came a lively babble. Said Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks: "Swell idea. It's a knockout." Chimed Agriculture's Ezra Taft Benson: "I'm no politician. But I think it's a great idea." Finally the President got a word in. "By golly, I like that idea. But it's pretty political, isn't it, Meade?" Replied Alcorn: "And how! Mr. President. But it's good politics, and will be good for the country...
...Fred Seaton to Ohio's Chairman Ray Bliss to fireballing Chicago Camera Maker Charles H. Percy. Ultimate choice: Thruston (rhymes with boostin') Ballard Morton, 51, elected Kentucky's junior Senator in 1956. Husky (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Thruston Morton, seventh-generation Kentuckian, is no politician-come-lately. He served three House terms (entered as a freshman with Congressman Richard Nixon). In 1952 he was the lone Eisenhower supporter in Kentucky's 20-man Taft-minded convention delegation. Later he became Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, got to know Presidential Assistant Nelson Rockefeller...
What was surprising was that, despite these handicaps, Nepal ran smoother elections than many a more advanced nation. More than half the 109 Parliament seats went to the Nepali Congress Party. Communists got only a handful as did the party of Nepal's most colorful politician, anti-American K. I. Singh. Under Nepali Congress Party Leader (and prospective Premier) B. P. Koirala, Nepal will probably keep to the same course it pursued under King Mahendra, who ordered the elections (and will continue to reign as a constitutional monarch). Major difference is that now Nepal's rulers...
...bank sent 250,000 subscribers an amazing document that lambasted bankers for "violation of trust," "barren feudalistic prejudice" and "misuse of funds." The angry author using the bank's stationery: A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who had taken a rapping from National City and, like any good politician, wanted equal time to rap right back...
...principals in this affair are Gene Massie, a lecherous old politician running for governor, and Harrison Garner, a local schoolteacher and a liberal. Garner's wife, who is a nymphomaniac, also figures prominently in the plot, and ultimately proves the undoing of both Massie and her husband...