Word: politico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States," was the reputed parting shot of Ambassador Sumner Welles to President Ramon Grau of Cuba before Mr. Welles returned to Washington (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week President Roosevelt recognized the five-day-old Cuban Government of the Island's new President that shrewd old politico Colonel Carlos Mendieta put in by a coup d'etat (TIME, Jan. 29). Straightway the Colonel cabled to Mr. Welles, now Assistant Secretary of State in Washington: "I am particularly grateful to Your Excellency . . . for your noble efforts . . . I am encouraged . . . because . . . I can count on your intelligent and weighty cooperation...
...second Vandenberg prohibition struck directly at Postmaster General Farley. The No. 1 politico of every Administration is always the Postmaster General. But he has never before been both Postmaster General and chairman of the National Committee, a prime fund-collecting job. Much criticism has been directed at "General" Farley for holding not only these offices but also the post of New York State Democratic Chairman. A long morning visit to the White House by Mr. Farley resulted in the news that he would retire from his state chairmanship when his term expires in September, from the national chairmanship after...
Cuba had a fresh President, that grand old man of the old line politicos, Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. Exhausted by his all-night job, Batista was still sound asleep that noon when President Mendieta pushed through a cheering, laughing mob with 20 potent politico friends to take the oath of office from his predecessor's well-trained father...
...exclusive investment or collateral lending policy and return to a basis of commercial lending. The period of fear is gone. The hysteria is past." To the convention with stronger language-language much less attuned to bankers' sensibilities-came R. F. C. Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, big-nosed politico-industrialist from Texas. Said he: "Hoarders of available credit are little better than hoarders of currency. You are afraid of a recurrence of conditions through which we have just passed. ... I ask, is it not time that we uncross our fingers and follow the President's lead? ... No one wants...
...lectures, dances, music) and sits on the Committee of Seventy for political reform. Professionally the destiny of the Curtis regime is difficult to read. Brother Gary is training himself for technical command but it may well be the voice of Brother Curtis that is some day heard speaking his politico-social creed through their magazines...