Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, Brewster has constantly had to deal with problems arising between government and business. Since his graduation from the Law school in 1913, the second-term Republican senator from Maine has led an active life as a lawyer as well as a politician...
...This Bavaria of ours is really a circus," explained Josef Mueller, pulling back his thick, rubbery lips in a wide grin. "Jo" should know. Bavaria's canniest politician, he heads the Christian Social Union, its top party machine, an unwieldy, feud-ridden alliance of anti-Marxists which controls 104 of the provincial Landtag's 180 seats. Jo of course was speaking not of Fasching but of Bavaria's political life...
...beliefs: 1) "he is right and all opponents are wrong, spiritually and factually; 2) he can beat any politician or set of politicians at their common trade; 3) he is boss and intends to assert it; 4) the American majority and most men & women of good will support him down to the item; and 5) if his friends are criticized, with or without good basis, it is a virtue to make a blanket defense of them and keep them in the places to which they are assigned...
Peron, no economist, looked on a possible loan with a politician's cold eye. At the Peronista rally, he melodramatically protested that "before signing [such] a document ... I would shoot myself...
...great many others, that I had a clear call to duty. But last November it turned out to be some other kind of noise. Instead ... I have been graduated at a comparatively early age to the role of elder statesman, which someone has aptly defined as a politician who is no longer a candidate for office...