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Back in 1940, long before others first spoke the words, a fat politico named Fazlul Huq publicly proposed the independent state of Pakistan. Last week, seven years after the state became a reality, Pakistan charged Huq, now Chief Minister of East Pakistan province, with "treasonable activities" and threw him out of office...
...talking politics and coffee, and last week there was some zestful news about each. In Congress, the first impeachment proceedings in Brazilian history were under way against President Getulio Vargas. Acting under an obscure 1950 law allowing anyone to make official charges against the President, a small-time politico put before Congress allegations of assorted presidential wrongdoing. Opposition Congressmen mischievously forced the matter to the floor, and the debate...
...politico's discovery that the federal political system is running virtually without patronage is akin to discovering that the corner grocery is running without the profit motive. Since Andrew Jackson overturned John Quincy Adams in 1828, political machines have been held together by the wholesale promise of jobs...
...Politico James Roosevelt, who is trying to win a California congressional nomination above the echoing din of wholesale adultery charges filed by his estranged wife Romelle. finally won a round in their mud-plastered court battle. A Pasadena judge let Roosevelt change his separate maintenance suit to a divorce action, which Romelle, a Roman Catholic, has caustically opposed because "he has no grounds for a divorce except his desire to remarry." The court threw two sops...
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, Sears's son-in-law David Busby, a local Democratic politico, proposed Sears's name to Democratic Senator Mike Monroney. Monroney's endorsement helped make up Jackson's mind in Sears's favor...