Word: politico
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...patience of tall, cool Sumner Welles suddenly ran out. For months the State Department had politely nudged the governments of Argentina and Chile, reminding them of hemispheric unity. But Argentina, under isolationist President Ramón S. Castillo, stayed stubbornly unregenerate. And Chile, under veteran politico President Juan Antonio Rios, kept coy. They, alone of all the Americas, refused to break relations with the Axis...
...have a representative though no machine tool, squarejawed, curly-haired New-Dealing Congressman Joseph Edward Casey, who won with the Administration's backing. In November he will face another blue-blooded Republican-the present Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., handsome grandson and namesake of the famous rock-ribbed politico...
Disaster. A previously inept politico, Franco demonstrated that the stress & strain of being dictator of a gaunt, proud land still in a state of civil war had taught him a few lessons. He canned both General Varela and Serrano in a Cabinet shakeup that became an international sensation...
Last week fellow trainees elected Leno Camp Mayor by a large majority. No politico, Leno had a simple platform: "To develop a greater war-conscious spirit in the camp." His post-election statement: "I am deeply impressed at this vote of confidence. Democracy really can work...
Only five days earlier Franklin Roosevelt had shown irritation at his press conference when a reporter, noting that the President had seen at least one New York politico nearly every day for days on end, asked if he planned to support Senator Mead. Testily the President replied that he had read some fool stories about an alleged struggle for Democratic Party leadership in New York, but that he was busy being President...