Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page of TIME and read the more modern thought of Eisenhower: "Our competitive system is an essential feature of democracy, but the practice of competition gives no man, no group, the right to act for selfish and immediate gain against the interests of the nation. . . . Banker and borrower . . . politician and farmer . . . must each keep his eye upon the major good...
...Harry Truman's own idea to make a career man-and not a politician-his Postmaster General. Not since Benjamin Franklin, who held the job from 1775 to 1776; had there been a PMG who actually knew something about the postal service when he took office...
...department's eight-column story on the life & works of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter-soldier-politician, in the Nov. 10 issue is, to a large extent, the result of a year's acquaintanceship between Artist Siqueiros and John Stanton, chief of TIME Inc.'s Mexico City bureau. Because the detail and sound analysis of Stanton's research also showed a warm understanding of Mexican ways, I asked him to tell me about the business of being a correspondent in Mexico as it applied to the Siqueiros story. This is his reply...
Back in Rio last week, silver-maned Mangabeira, a kindly, top-heavy-looking politician with shoulders like Joe Louis' and legs like Babe Ruth's, found himself the most important man in the country. He was right in his element. For months he had talked coalition; now he had a chance to do something about...
...rate) to the same furniture shop that sold it to the Russians when they moved in a little over a year ago. A samovar brought 500 pesos; newspapers noted that under the longer Spanish name (urna rusa para agua caliente) samovars could be bought anywhere in Santiago. A leftist politician with an ideological itch bought the furnishings of Zhukov's office (desk, chairs, lamps) for 9,500 pesos ($190). A still-shiny 1942 Studebaker brought only 100,000 pesos ($2,000), half the going black market price. One reason for low prices: in the auctioneer's showroom...