Word: politicians
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Died. J. Howard McGrath, 62, Democratic politician, a wealthy New England real estate man who was thrice elected Governor of Rhode Island ('40, '42, '44), then served under the aegis of Good Friend Harry S. Truman as U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Senator, Democratic National Chairman and, finally, from 1949 to 1952, Attorney General; of a heart attack; in Narragansett, R.I. McGrath's political demise came when Truman ordered him to look into cor ruption in government and McGrath hired Liberal Republican Newbold Morris as a special investigator; Morris began by investigating McGrath, which so enraged...
Verwoerd is one of the ablest white leaders that Africa has ever produced. He has a photographic memory, an analytical mind and an endless capacity for work. He is a brilliant diplomat and an inventive politician. He is the inspired defender of the Afrikaner faith, the unquestioned captain of the Afrikaner laager. But his fortress is vulnerable and his enemy within. So taut are the nerves of South Africa's blacks that twice in recent months crashes of African commuter trains have set the passengers off in bloody rioting against their white engineers. Outside his confident country, there...
...conservatives, who in 1964 seized control of the state central committee that Smylie had dominated for ten years, picked State Senator Don W. Samuelson, 53, to oppose Smylie in the primary. Samuelson, a stolid, somewhat inarticulate politician who sells fire-fighting equipment and rock drills, campaigned principally on the notion that "the state government must be operated as a business," and promised to hire "a crew of certified public accountants" to make sure that it would be. It was not much, but, considering Smylie's new liabilities and the fact that he has recently become so preoccupied with national...
...only politician freed. In the Eastern Region, Iwo Leader Michael I. Okpara was also released from detention. But it was open to question whether either man would be much help in restoring national unity. Before they were jailed, both had been outspokenly anti-North. And at one time or another, both went on record as favoring the division of Nigeria into its component regional parts...
Died. Arthur Bernard Langlie, 65, Republican politician and publisher, son of a grocer, who rose on the wave of a Seattle reform movement to become the only man to serve three terms as Governor of Washington State (1941-45, 1949-57), bringing parsimony and Presbyterian morality to the office, but lost a 1956 Senate race, retired from politics to a job as president and later chairman of McCall Corp.; of leukemia and a heart ailment; in Seattle...