Word: politico
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...next century, he believes, will be determined by U.S. activities in the next few years. Meanwhile, the histories of Messrs. Buell and Treadway, as well as that of the First Massachusetts District, will be determined in a ding-dong scramble in the next nine weeks. Last week Amateur Politico Buell seemed to have at least a 50-50 chance...
Died. Dr. John Richard Brinkley, 56, Kansas' goat-bearded "goat-gland" medico-politico; of heart disease; in San Antonio. He exploited the desire of age for youth's potency, peddling a gland emulsion and grafting goat glands at his "rejuvenation clinic" in Milford, Kans. In his heyday he had three yachts, several raudy limousines, decorated himself with diamonds, employed 50 secretaries, took in a reputed $1,000,000 a year. He sold prescriptions over the air from his own radio station, broadcast diagnoses, threw in a little preaching. After Kansas revoked his license to practice...
...carried six corn-belt States in 1940, hovered this week in the background of a corn-belt primary. Iowa Republicans went to the polls to nominate a candidate for the U.S. Senate. They had four choices, but the fight centered on two: Governor George Wilson, veteran corporation lawyer and politico, and State Secretary of Agriculture Mark Thornburg, backed by Willkie...
...haired, twinkling, courteous Aly Maher Pasha was Premier of Egypt when World War II began. Behind him was a vigorous record as a lawyer, administrator and nationalist politico. Aly Maher Pasha had also found time to indulge a passion for swimming and handsome daughters of Egypt. But when Italy entered the war, Britain found him unsympathetic to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty calling for Egyptian cooperation with the British Army, and King Farouk accepted Aly Maher Pasha's resignation...
...Brian Donlevy), seventh President of the U.S., turns up in Shale City, Colo, to pay a debt of gratitude to the great-grandson of the man who saved his life at the Battle of New Orleans. The great-grandson, William Holden, an honest young municipal bookkeeper, needs help. His politico bosses are about to jail him for discovering that they have rigged the city books to cover their thefts...