Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists, John Lewis is no more than a slick labor politician. But Miner Lewis has worked in Illinois coal pits, has his own ideas about the Labor Front. Disgusted was he, therefore, when the executive council, controlled by Green & Co., gobbled at the bait offered by the American Legion, proposed to alter A. F. of L.'s constitution, outlaw Communist members (TIME, Oct. 21). At a Federation convention the 525 delegates cast some 30,000 votes. Of these the miners control some 4,000. Leader Lewis picked up another 7,000 from unions like David Dubinsky's International...
...politician can afford to tell the truth. So criticism of the President's interview may possibly miss the point, which lies not in the meaning, but in the effect, of words. While sometimes a man may arise out of the muck of politics, and pervert dirty incentives and dirty objectives and dirty lies to good ends, in this case, even the effect demands Life Buoy...
...politician can tell farmers this truth and remain a politician. But a great man can encourage and make easier and quicker the essential shift of farmers, or farmers' sons and daughters, into industry. No-one who has not mixed up his ideals with his ambitions, hypnotized himself into believing the best thing for the country coincides with the best thing for personal, political success, could advocate as a permanent policy the subsidy of farmers to induce them not to produce what the country needs...
...jailed for defrauding a North Carolina bank of $1,384.000 (TIME, May 21, 1934). When, at 55, Luke Lea put on the striped suit of Convict No. 29,409 to begin a six-to-ten-year term, he laid all his troubles to "persecution" by a Nashville banker-politician named Paul Maclin Davis and his elder brother, U. S. Ambas- sador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis. Last week Banker Davis and RFChairman Jesse Jones, who, though a Texan, was born & bred in Tennessee, found themselves in water heated to the boiling point by the Tennessean's troubles...
...class of 1939 are significant at all, more Harvard men in the future will be entering public life. At present Harvard trains them beautifully in the background and ideas of American Government, but there is no course which provides a real understanding of the problems that face a modern politician. Such a one is necessary if Harvard men intend ever to fight intelligently and realistically against dirty politicians, and also is necessary, as Lincoln Steffens suggests, if they wish to become successful dirty politicians...