Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Julius Raab, 72, Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961, chief architect of its postwar independence, a lumbering, folksy engineer-turned-politician who in 1955 talked the Soviets into withdrawing troops from their zone of the partitioned country in return for a promise of neutrality, thereafter cut income taxes, stabilized the schilling, turned thriving Austria into a highly persuasive advertisement for capitalism; of a lung embolism; in Vienna...
...avoid undue capitals punishment, Brazilians have now started a trend toward spelling out the letters. Thus a member of the UDN party becomes a Udenist. For other parties, it takes sharp eyesight, not to mention keen political insight, to determine whether a politician is a Pecebist, Pedecist, Pessebist, Pessedist, Pessepist, Pessetist, Petebist or Petenist. And that, son, is not much...
...city cops taking lunch there. When the Press disagreed with the Cleveland Bar Association's candidate for the municipal bench, it asked its readers to write in the name of an unknown young lawyer whom the paper preferred. The young lawyer won. If the Press likes a politician, it can boost him into almost any office. Frank Lausche, a Democrat, rose from Cleveland mayor to Ohio Governor to U.S. Senator on Press support. If the Press doesn't like a politician, the whole city soon finds out. Before an election last November, the Press's rundown...
Edmund G. Brown, governor of California, is an extraordinary politician. You know that he is a politician the instant he shakes your hand, and asks where you come from and how you spell your name...
...University of Rochester, offers a sampling of paternal advice, reproach and exhortation from the 14th century to the present day. At their most fascinating, the letters sketch whole chapters of social history in a few lines. "You ought to aim at being a good ecclesiastic," writes that arch-politician Lorenzo de' Medici in 1492 to the teen-age son he has just seen made a cardinal, "nor will it be difficult for you to favor your family"-thus suggesting the marriage of piety and expedience that so corrupted the Roman Catholic church and led at last to the Reformation...