Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Lindsay Almond, highly skilled lawyer and vote-getting politician, the conflict between republican law and regional politics as dictated by prejudice comes to bear in a microcosm. Almond is a true son of the Virginia that gave to the U.S. eight Presidents, including Washington, Jefferson and Madison, the bone, blood and brain of the republic. He is equally a son of the Virginia that gave to the Confederacy its crimson fields, its grey-clad men, and above all its leaders, who should have known better...
...Politician Almond cannot always afford the judicial view. Sworn to a no-surrender policy against integration, he can fan dangerous emotions with the best of demagogues, warning that the Supreme Court will soon "make it lawful for a Negro to intermarry with a white person," describing civil rights programs as "ribald, unconstitutional, politically designed, cheap and tawdry" or "communistically conceived and sponsored...
...apparently Businessman Cord forgot that successful politicians talk often and act cautiously. Cord somehow never filed for governor, gave no reason, left an impression that his health was poor. Incautiously he backed lackluster Harvey Dickerson, 53, Nevada attorney general and a habitual also-ran, for the governor's nomination, unabashedly poured an estimated $75,000 into Dickerson's campaign. When enterprising Dickerson Opponent Grant Sawyer, Elko County district attorney, cried that Cord was buying the governor's mansion just as he had bought corporations, tight-lipped Politician Cord ignored the charge. The impression took root; by last...
...other major Republican candidates frantically disavowed the Knowland gambit, and organized labor went out against Knowland as never before. But the most lasting effect of the Republican brawl was that it gave the Democrats the chance to attack a man of straightforward ways and impersonal honesty as a ruthless politician who had brutally shoved Goodie Knight aside to satisfy his own consuming ambitions. And who could better save California from such a tyrant than just plain...
...nationalists howled lustily, but Jánio ignored them. The significance was that a shrewd and ambitious politician can now say out loud in Brazil that nationalism is better served by whatever means will get Brazil the petroleum the country thirsts...