Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What would give any politician pause was the fact that a substantial majority of the conservatives in the Garden were under...
Harry Weinberg, 53, is an up-from-the-slums entrepreneur who has made a fortune by buying faltering city bus lines and then paring payrolls, slashing services, and raising some fares. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 52, the mayor of New York with ambitions for higher office, is a consummate politician who wants to stay on the safe side with bus riders and labor unions. Last week these two determined men collided on the streets of New York, snarling public transit from the Bowery to The Bronx. The nation's biggest metropolitan bus line was stalled by a strike...
...champion of the city's rights, which he has long helped bury in the dung-heap of rhetoric and red-tape which is Albany. In the present case, he has misjudged the Mayor. For the Mayor has recently learned at great expense the responsibilities of a real politician, and is not likely to support a fare-rise, even if he is worked on by whatever survives of "the boys" after last November's election...
...Emperor, ascended his throne in 1955. It had been secured for him by his father, who four years earlier toppled the prolific and powerful Rana family, which had ruled Nepal for a century. The young King was filled with democratic good intentions. A poet as well as a pragmatic politician, he personally edited a constitution for his 9,000,000 people (91 % illiterate) and gave his consent to Nepal's first national election...
JOXE, says a colleague, "is a politician by nature, which is much better than being one by training." Louis Joxe was a professor's son, and after graduation from the University of Paris, he became a history professor there himself. He turned from teaching to join France's Foreign Office in 1932, took a year out in 1937 to teach at Vermont's Middlebury College. When France fell in 1940, Joxe escaped to Algeria to carry on the resistance, helped plan the North African landings. Later, he was France's ambassador to Moscow...