Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thrown a party for the other. At one of them, tireless Candidate Kefauver himself gallantly delivered a reporter's written spoof of his speechifying cliches and halting style. Reported the New York Daily News's Gwen Gibson: "While some don't like him as a politician, reporters with him have learned to like the stumbling, fumbling Tennessee Senator as a person...
This statement is perhaps one of the President's shrewdest moves since his election--leading people to wonder just how much of a politician the innocent General has become--but it holds out hope to the South that it is morally right and leads it to believe that the whole matter is, after all, one of political caginess...
...light of Ike's timidity, the statements made recently by Stevenson (hitherto considered the clever and cautious politician) seem especially startling. Last spring the CRIMSON sharply criticized Stevenson for shilly-shallying--his moderation seemed to have only political motives. But his attitudes this fall indicate that moderation, with him, is a matter of principle, for his stand is firm. The first indication of this was in his judgment on the most recent incidents which he termed "a disgrace to Democrats, a disgrace to Republicans, and a disgrace to the nation." But his latest statement at Little Rock carried his firmness...
...With the Dhoti. For all his playboy manner, however, Suhrawardy is a deliberate contender for power. His opponents call him "a complete opportunist"; Suhrawardy softens that to read "complete politician." The son of a rich Calcutta mill owner, he entered politics soon after his graduation from Oxford, was a sufficiently good administrator to become Chief Minister of Bengal, one of the biggest jobs in British India. With India's independence and its partition into Hindu and Moslem nations. Moslem Suhrawardy, instead of going to Moslem Pakistan, toured Bengal with Mahatma Gandhi and tried...
...News, advising against a "refined, polite, high-level campaign . . . Nice-Nellyism seldom wins elections in this country." Slapping Adlai Stevenson for his "prissy little jab at President Eisenhower's favorite game, golf," the News totted up 3,500,000 U.S. golfers and concluded: "In sneering at golf, a politician takes much the same risk as in sneering at Baseball, Baby, Mother, The Flag. The Home...