Word: politico
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Though the Prime Minister is probably the most successful product of their patronage in two generations, the Londonderrys do not confine their politico-social interests to the Empire. Last week they were faced with an eruption of discord in an entire family of Londonderry proteges, the ex-Royal Family of Spain...
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore last week harbored the jolliest of patients. He was Senor Manuel Luis Quezon of the Philippines. The President of the Philippine Senate and No. 1 politico of the Islands kept the entire staff in stitches, rumpled all kinds of hospital rules. Senor Quezon, 56, had plenty to keep his spirits up: his longtime dream of Philippine independence from the U. S. was well on the way toward reality; he confidently expects to be the Islands' first President; he had kept Senora Quezon in Manila from worrying by entering the hospital under the name of Pedro...
...line politico, the President has a conservative background but of late has grown steadily more radical, playing for the support of Cuba's restive unemployed. Last week he wanted to seize the Cuban Telephone Co., in which U. S. citizens own the greater part of an investment stake of $28,000,000, planted through International Telephone & Tele- graph which owns stock control. Nervous ministers warned President Mendieta that such confiscation would be rash indeed, but he relied on President Roosevelt's "good neighbor" policy and distaste for public utility companies...
...does nothing else, such a book as Property or Peace should impress its readers with the fact that in a world of tear-gas bombs, castor oil. strikes and politico-religious excommunications there is still such a thing as tart reasonableness...
...wants a run for his money. Last week he gave Grau's followers, the National Revolutionary Party, permission to celebrate Grau's arrival. But he was seriously alarmed for his own political life by a demonstration such as has not been given any Cuban politico in a generation...