Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beer said that Gaitskell "was not a clever politician. His integrity was so strong that he couldn't always make adjustments, but in the long run he won everybody's respect. He had many friends in Washington and Cambridge...
...sent to study business administration at Boston University, today functions as the family's salesman and visionary deal maker. Reflective Luis, 58, who studied mechanical engineering at M.I.T., is the organizer, labor relations chief and, as the leader of Puerto Rico's Republican Party, the family politician. The production expert is Herman, 53. a quiet sort who majored in civil engineering at M.I.T. (A fourth brother, Carlos, who died in 1958, was a chemical engineer...
...trying to stop the fellow from talking or getting a simple answer to a simple question; it was one of getting much at all from a reticent man who will speak candidly about taxes but doesn't enjoy talking about himself. Furthermore, Mills is a discreet politician, not given to describing how he intends to play his hand...
...Douglas Dillon, the only Republican in Kennedy's Cabinet, is a sturdy champion of reform along the basic lines that Mills advocates. President Kennedy in a TV speech last year promised "long-needed tax reform that logic and equity demand." But tax reform is a brambly issue for a politician to grab hold of. Any tampering with tax privileges is bound to stir up angry opposition...
Separate Paths. Powers, who called the strike, does not trust Bradford. He is not so much printer as union politician, a shrewd and self-made man whose formal education ended with the second year of high school. By 1961, Powers' ambition had carried him all the way to the presidency of Local 6, from which eminence he issued the command that struck nine dailies dumb...