Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsibility had been divided among the Commerce Department, the Federal Power Commission, the Office of Emergency Planning and the White House itself. Now the complicated job of determining import quotas will be done under a single roof. Johnson's motives were partly political: as an oil-state politician, he wanted to avoid possible charges of favoritism. All the same, the result was hailed by the Independent Petroleum Association of America on the grounds that the Interior Department is "the only agency staffed with specialists and technicians capable of providing complete and authoritative information on the industry...
Immediately after President Kennedy's assassination, top Republicans declared a month-long moratorium on partisan political activity. But under the U.S.'s tried and true system, such a moratorium fits a politician about as well as a bottle fits a bumblebee. And by last week the buzzing about 1964's G.O.P. presidential possibilities was being heard all over...
Herbert H. Lehman, who died last week at 85, was a most unlikely sort of politician. He could not remember a name or a face. A small, somewhat heavy man, he had little humor, and almost no time for the pleasantries ordinarily associated with politics. He was a tireless do-gooder, given to rambling speeches about the virtues of liberalism. He had none of the classic grace of Franklin Roosevelt, none of the earthy charm of Al Smith. Yet in his time he was as popular with New York voters as either F.D.R. or the Happy Warrior -and he outlasted...
...Little New Deal." While Smith was defeated, Roosevelt and Lehman won. After that, no New York politician ever won as many statewide elections as Lehman. He won twice for Lieutenant Governor, four times for Governor, and twice for U.S. Senator. Succeeding Roosevelt as Governor in 1933, Lehman pushed through such social welfare legislation as old-age benefits, unemployment insurance, public housing, earned his administration a nickname as the "little New Deal." He inherited a budget deficit of $106 million, converted it to a surplus of $80 million in ten years...
...began teaching. Entering Parliament in 1946, the newcomer was nicknamed by his colleagues "The Quaker" because of his dour outlook and austere habits. Through sheer diligence, Moro became Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1948, received his own ministry (Justice) in 1955. However, his speeches as a politician sounded as if he were still addressing law students at Bari, contained so many pedantic abstractions that deciphering his meanings gave rise to a whole new group of experts known as "Morologists...