Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coolidge and Hoover had refused to recognize it). Stalin in the '30s gave F.D.R. ambiguous praise as "one of the strongest figures among all the captains of the contemporary capitalist world." But the Soviet press was generally scornful of the New Deal, occasionally deriding Roosevelt as "a bourgeois politician," and Roosevelt hit bottom in Soviet esteem when he condemned the Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 and placed a "moral embargo" on U.S. sale of planes and other war materials to the U.S.S.R...
...committed himself to run for reelection. But the temptation to become Texas' first four-term Governor turned out to be too much. A small (5 ft. 8 in.), grey-haired man with a winsome smile and a squeaky voice, Daniel hardly fits the image of the flamboyant Texas politician-but Texans seem to like him, and he is a formidable vote-getter. This year he can point to a scandal-free administration and a record of modest achievement in highway construction, industrial development and teachers' pay raises...
...sessions Menon relaxed, and shared with Mohr one of his birdlike lunches of puffed rice, hot salted nuts and many cups of tea. Perhaps the explanation lies in the answer Menon once gave to a scolding by Nehru's sister, Madame Pandit. "My dear girl," said Menon, "a politician may be either loved or disliked. But he has to get into the newspapers some...
Nowhere are the issues more fervently debated than in the constituency of North Bombay, where a splenetic and tireless politician is campaigning hard to retain his parliamentary seat. His name is plastered on thousands of opposition posters slapped on tree trunks, buildings and boulders all over North Bombay. The posters show two red bayonets stabbing down from Red China into India; the words are less a slogan than an accusation: "Menon represents China, not India...
...Author Dougherty values irony above all other literary minerals, and the vein runs deep. Several years later, Duggan muses on the rewards of goodfellowship: how even Avery's first wife-Duggan's present one-never abandoned her warm regard for the failed politician and faithless husband. The depth of that regard is vividly apparent to Duggan as he watches his sturdy young son, born after the second round of marriages but, he realizes uncomfortably, well before Avery drowned. "He is generous with his toys, and waits his turn at the slides even when he is being cheated...