Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's past kept cropping up during the day. One stolid old politician wanted a verse of Deutschland über Alles included in the ceremonies. And there was the riverboat contretemps. Bonn, desperately short of housing, commissioned the Cologne-Düsseldorf Steamship Co. to tie up a big river liner near the city. The line told Bonn that the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm would be there. Himmel! croaked the Bonn officials, the name might cause criticism. Replied the ship line: "S.S. Bismarck coming." That was worse. Bonn wired: "Send Kaiser Wilhelm, but hide name with sign reading 'Hotel...
State Auditor "Jumping Joe" Ferguson. A sign on his desk reads: "The politician thinks about the next election; the statesman thinks about the next generation." Joe was plainly thinking about the next election. Said he: "There ain't nobody going to get me out of this race...
...Laurent faces the problem of bridging the gulf between English and French. His own French-Irish background, his perfect bilingualism, have already contributed a lot toward bringing French-and English-speaking Canada closer. He himself never uses the term "French Canadian"; his phrase is "French-speaking Canadians." But wise Politician St. Laurent knows that French-speaking Canada can not be brushed off with symbols and phrases. He has been methodically building up French Canadian representation in the civil service, where it had fallen well below the 2-to-1 ratio of Canada's English-French population...
Boyle was sure the Dixiecrats could be brought into line. Said he: "Recognition is a politician's meat & drink. If they don't get it, they are nothing. I quoted Abraham Lincoln in my speech: 'I will go along with a man as long as he is going in my direction.' That's an invitation for sinners to march down the aisle. Those who don't march will be suffocated, as far as the National Committee is concerned...
...cabinet that would guarantee him the most workable coalition. (The Socialists are now definitely out; in are the free-enterprising Protestant Free Democrats and the extreme nationalist Deutsche Partei.) From Bonn last week, TIME Correspondent David Richardson cabled: "Neither young nor dynamic, Adenauer is the kind of pre-Nazi politician who did not succumb to National Socialism and who now must lead his country's new life until a new generation, not tainted by Hitler, can rise to power. Adenauer has limitations, but he can at least be counted upon to seek better relations between Germany and the West...