Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frank acceptance of the dominance of parties in national government. But partly because of the constitutional disregard of this factor in American government, the "machines" secretly control the legislatures of the states and practically repudiate the principle of popular sovereignty. As a result of the backstage tactics of local politicians, a goodly proportion of otherwise astute citizens refuse even to exercise their right to vote--thereby strengthening even more the position of the boss and his cohorts. The problem of American local politics is therefore not primarily one of reforming the politician, but of making the voter vote...
This Cabinet is virtually the same as that of ex-Chancellor Gustav Stresemann, the only changes being in the Ministers of Food, Economy and Justice and, of course, in the Chancellorship. Dr. Marx, although an old politician, is not reputed to be a strong man, and, if the Cabinet lasts, the power in Germany will remain precisely where it was during the last Government, i. e., in the hands of Stresemann, Jarres and General von Seeckt, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichwehr. It follows as an unavoidable corollary that the policy of the present Government will not be changed...
This young-looking Filipino holds the post which was vacated by the astute Sergio Osmena who preferred to sit in the Philippine Senate under his brother politician, Quezon. It may have been that Osmena foresaw unprofitable struggles with Governor General Wood, and preferred to avoid a position of open leadership. At any rate, Roxas was made Speaker of the House and side by side with President Quezon of the Senate has opposed General Wood. Now he comes to Washington for the thankless task of trying to convince the Administration that the Philippines should be made independent. The political prognosticators prophesied...
...politician in the modern accepted sense of the term, I do not know what place Mr. Gandhi would be accorded, but there is no doubt that apart from the local and temporal part that Mr. Gandhi has played he will go down in the history of the World as one of the great souls that has been born on this planet to express the will of providence, to demonstrate with all human firmness the truth of the eternal moral order, and to lay bare the guilt of man against man which in the outcome of sheer ignorance and moral degeneration...
...Signor Gentile has surprised everybody by joining the Fascisti movement-which means that he is "assisted" at every turn by Dr. Mussolini, who does not seem to know too much about education. The right man, in Italy as well as here, would be something between a philosopher and a politician. Does he exist...