Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said in a public address that he considers it his duty to "frighten people out of their wits" with the dangers of War (TIME, June 22), promptly bolted from London over to Paris. There he conferred with burly, square-jawed French War Minister Edouard Daladier, an ambitious politician whose critics have for years implied that he wants to make himself France's Radical Dictator...
...Governor La Follette had seen his way clear to press first for a change in the board of regents and delay the action against Dr. Frank, he would have been proclaimed as the defender of academic freedom. Instead he has allowed himself, perhaps unjustly, to be branded as a politician glad to see one of his enemies "embarrassed," even if in the process his state university is subjected to the indignity of washing its dirty linen in public. New York Herald-Tribune
Other ways that he has found of not doing what is expected of a politician: he never joined any church, never attended a Presidential reception, and having established that as a sort of personal usage, broke it by attending one of Franklin Roosevelt's parties...
...Trans-appalachian west have left a residue in American culture and psychology forbidding the growth of the totalitarian state. Mr. Seldes as much as admits that this is wishful thinking: as a liberal he needs something to fight for and seeks it in a middle ground. For a politician, particularly a reforming politician, to be on the fence, weakens his position. Seldes therefore dresses his appeal in dramatic phrase which fortunately fail completely to conceal a fairly perceptive mind...
...stature equaled by few other candidates for Man of the Year. Indeed so impressive was his handling of the Simpson Crisis that his popularity in England reached an all-time high and evoked one of the most extraordinary gestures of public acclaim ever accorded to a modern politician: a gift of $10,000,000 to implement the new era brought about by Mr. Baldwin...