Word: politico
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...politicians winked and the lawyers shuddered when Herbert Brownell Jr., as professional a politico as ever there was in the U.S., was appointed Attorney General of the U.S. in 1953. But Brownell dropped from politics and public sight, went to work with a tough will and a legal flair. By now the legal eagles across the land rate this least-known member of the Eisenhower Cabinet as one of the best Attorneys General in U.S. history. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Back-Room Man Out Front...
...seven weeks since President Ramon Magsaysay, the Philippines' national hero, died in a plane crash (TIME. March 25), no single politico has emerged who seems a worthy successor. But with convention time only two months away and general elections scheduled for November, many a hopeful was whirling about the cities and barrios last week shaking hands, kissing babies and listening to that old siren song, the will of the people...
...wise politico carefully adheres to a bit of advice given by George Bernard Shaw: 'Treat a friend as a person who may some day become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may some day become your friend...
When he was working for them, the French dignified Le Van Vien's private army of 8,000 bloodthirsty gangsters as a "politico-religious organization," but Le Van Vien himself put it to more practical uses, including piracy, highway robbery, kidnaping, smuggling, pandering and an elaborate system of shakedown rackets. By the early 1950s, however, his chest adorned with France's own Legion of Honor for other services rendered, General Le Van Vien was a respectable servant of empire with a household of wives and concubines and a zoo full of wild beasts on a spacious estate overlooking...
...five soldiers who died defending him. He spoke lightly of the danger he had faced. But some of his henchmen quickly took up the politics of murder. Two lowly oppositionists were found shot to death. another hanged. Far more ominously, former Senator Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, 57, a politico who fought Batista with outspoken criticism, was found in a Havana suburb, his body riddled with bullets...