Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NEXT ELECTION in Cambridge is seven months off, but anyone who ventures near the City Council chambers on Monday nights can sense the politician stirring within each councillor. Various citizen organizations are planning their slates and potential candidates are feeling out and bargaining for support. Some candidates have already held informal meetings for their supporters...
...political goal. Looking ahead to the 1972 election, he made sure that the income of farmers rose at the expense of other consumers and taxpayers, and now he is paying for it. Eager to corral as much of the farm vote as possible, he outdid any Plains State politician in pouring on subsidies and paying farmers to keep land out of production under the so-called set-aside program last year. Federal payments to farmers soared to $4.1 billion from $3.1 billion the year before, and food production dropped by more than 2%. Nixon's chosen executor of this...
...student unrest and a variety of other annoying domestic problems. In the circumstances, it was no surprise that Sadat decided to remove Premier Sidky. What was surprising was Sadat's decision to take on the unpopular job himself. "It's a strange move for such a shrewd politician as Sadat," mused a high-ranking U.S. State Department official. Washington sees one possible explanation: President Sadat is not prepared to serve as Premier for long but is determined to shake up his government's ponderous machinery with a short dose of direct daily supervision...
...Adolf Hitler speaking from his grave? No, but close enough. Those words were spoken in an interview for Dutch television-and they came from Belgium's leading Nazi collaborator in World War II. Of Léon Degrelle, the speaker, who had been a Belgian right-wing politician in the 1930s, Hitler once reportedly said: "If I had a son, I would want him to be like Degrelle...
...After failing in two local contests, he won a by-election for the federal seat of Werriwa in 1952 and has held it ever since. His early years in Parliament were difficult. His own party regarded him suspiciously because he did not fit the image of a typical Labor politician: he had never worked with his hands, worn overalls, belonged to a trade union or been on strike. Well-educated, well-spoken, well-dressed, he was characterized as a "smoothie," and as Labor's "golden...