Word: politico
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First came a report from French Lick that Indiana Republicans had issued a manifesto, read Wendell Willkie out of the party for his support of the Administration's foreign policy. The report was false, but gave a fair indication of the feelings of many a Republican politico...
Canadians know Mitch Hepburn as the Liberal Premier of Ontario, a tough, loud-talking self-made politico on the lines of the late Huey Long, whose political leitmotiv is making ill-tempered cracks at the leader of the Dominion's Liberal Party, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. They know him as a onetime pal of Quebec's smalltime "fascist" Maurice Duplessis, but now 110% for all aid to Britain. They know him as a perennial dark horse who, because of his enmity to King, can never be counted on to take the leading role in the Canadian...
...fight that promised to be more serious than heated telegrams or radio polemics. This week the Dominion Government will grapple with the question of taking over part of the provinces' revenue sources for war needs. Though it would be like losing teeth, observers thought that for politico-patriotic reasons Mitch would have to give up some of Ontario's cherished pin money, possibly sign away the Province's share of the joint dominion-provincial income...
While Japanese soldiers in French Indo-China made ugly faces across the border at Thailand, the U.S. decided that Bangkok was no place for a noncareer diplomat, hastily picked one of the ablest (and homeliest) career men in its Far Eastern diplomatic service to replace the Alabama politico who has been U.S. Minister there since...
...give the war game a realistic background he distributed a 16-page mimeographed description of a fictitious politico-economic situation that led to the hostilities. On one side was the state of Kotmk (initials of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kentucky), represented by the Third Army. On the other side was the state of Almat (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee) of the Second Army...