Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politician, but an ambitious careerist, Brauchitsch had studied hard during the years he spent in a swivel chair. He mastered his own specialty, artillery, then went on to pore over the more theoretical aspects of warfare. He became a firm believer in a strong defense as a prelude to any kind of warfare, and, with Adolf Hitler's, his eyes were turned to the East as the next battleground for the Reich...
...evils of the saloon," he says: "This began while a freshman in college." His autobiography dwells most fondly on his behind-the-scenes activities. He relates the inside story of 14 national Republican Conventions, where he sat in on many a smoke-filled hotel-room confab, with such politicians as Pennsylvania's Boies Penrose and the late President Warren G. Harding. Politician Butler's chief usefulness was as a kind of glorified errand boy who carried messages between one faction and another, wrote the first draft of political platforms (usually discarded), delivered statements to the press...
Bilbo's man Johnson won by a solid margin, 162,688-to-136,264. Pat Harrison, unembarrassed by jibes at his constant switching, was now embarrassed in the way a politician best understands it. Apparently faded were his hopes of appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near...
Main new material in Daniel Boone deals with Boone's career after the Indians were licked, as politician, surveyor, land-hungry businessman. Biographer Bakeless defends Boone's honesty, says that no proof exists that Boone deliberately swindled clients who lost their land through faulty titles. Boone was only careless, says Biographer Bakeless, and not least careless in failing to anticipate a rush of smart lawyers...
...south, Wang Keh-min was trying to get out up north. Since early in 1938 the latter has been head of the North China Provisional Government in Peking. The perfect puppet, he was educated and served as a diplomat in Japan, had a long but never spectacular career as politician and financial manipulator under successive North China regimes. Decrepit at 60, he looks as if he had been made of cheap Japanese materials. For some time he has wanted desperately to resign. For several weeks he has refused even to pretend to work. But puppets do not resign; a string...