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...would control the new Senate? Republicans, in the minority for 13 years, needed a net gain of ten seats to take over.* To many a practiced politico, this had seemed like an insuperable obstacle. But by last week, what with the Wallace fracas and the meat shortage, some had begun to change their minds...
Like many another able, honest politico, Governor Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut found himself last winter well on into middle age (52) with little or no money in the bank. Wherefore he decided-definitely, he said-to give up public life and work for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company at $30,000 a year, with prospects of becoming president of the company at $75,000. But people wondered: could Ray Baldwin really bring himself to give it all up-a prospective seat in the U.S. Senate and further opportunities to serve his country in a great period of history...
Alias Schacht. To the man of the field and to the great mass of city workers, Peron was both a smiling politico ready to backslap even convicts in the federal pen, and a gaucho St. George battling a reactionary dragon. Peron's "battle of the 60 days" had already frozen or reduced prices of four chief food staples: bread, sunflower-seed oil, sugar, spaghetti. Few realized, or perhaps cared, that the gaucho who looked like St. George was really more of a Hjalmar Schacht. In good Nazi tradition, the export market was subsidizing the domestic. Examples: the Argentine Government...
...Hanrahan, no politico, is a partner in a Manhattan law firm (Sullivan, Donovan & Heenehan). Though he professes to have no Wall Street clients (except one Government bond house) the downtown location of his office was enough to arouse some congressional opposition to putting a "Wall Streeter...
...this way the Administration, which has posed as the foe of bigness in business, settled one of the hottest politico-economic questions of the year in favor of bigness...