Word: politicians
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Agreeable Evasiveness. When the government fell in 1834, half-demented King William IV picked Melbourne as Prime Minister because he liked him. "I think it's a damned bore," sighed Melbourne. The populace agreed. "He is certainly a queer fellow to be Prime Minister," remarked a politician. His job, Melbourne believed, was chiefly to keep peace among his quarrelsome Cabinet ministers. By a policy of "agreeable evasiveness," he shored up his shaky government, weathered crises no one expected him to survive. He backed reform measures when he had to, but most of the time he happily saw them defeated...
Harvey admitted, however, that no politician would ever support abolition of the "draft gravy train" which provides office jobs for hundreds of civilians...
...Hard Feelings. In Celebrezze, Kennedy got not only a good administrator, a well-honed politician and an outgoing personality, but a man who could help him tie up some political loose ends. Chief among them was the restive Italian-American bloc, whose 4,543,935 members make it the biggest foreign-born minority group...
Part of Maudling's success as a politician lies in his ability to present unpalatable arguments in rational, easy-to-take terms. Discussing Britain's economic problems, he said recently: "No one wishes to return to the old, harsh disciplines of unemployment and grinding poverty. But unless their place is taken by the self-discipline of a responsible society, the whole basis of a free economy-and therefore of a free society-is in jeopardy." The nation may react to such Maudling talk as it did to Selwynism, but, grins the new Chancellor, "I'm an optimist...
Died. Malcolm Paul Cantrell. 65, Tennessee banker and heavy-handed politician whose powerful Democratic machine allied itself with Memphis' Boss Crump, ruled the roost in southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn...