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...that they could wait a lot longer than they thought they could. There was still nothing wrong with the Ike campaign that couldn't be soothed with one little yes. But as 1952 unrolled toward convention time, all the logic in the world couldn't keep a politico from getting jumpy...
Actually, all Neff lost was a title. He will stay on as operating boss of MoPac at $75,000 a year, under Guy A. Thompson, the 76-year-old St. Louis lawyer, Democratic politico and court-appointed trustee for the road. As majority stockholder, Young can pick a president. But it is an empty title. The real bosses are Trustee Thompson and his man Neff. Nevertheless, the dramatic move set the stage nicely for Young when he took the witness stand to fire back...
...least 7,500,000 Germans. If East and West Germany were united (as Schumacher keeps demanding), and elections were free, he certainly would become Chancellor. Or if West Berlin were to be included politically in West Germany (as Schumacher also demands), he would clearly be Germany's top politico, for the party of Berlin's able Mayor Ernst Reuter is the party of Schumacher...
Handsome Carlos Guevara Moreno, who took a degree in biology at the Sorbonne in the early '30s, likes to say that he "abandoned the scientific laboratory of biology for the human laboratory of politics." Sixteen months ago, Politico Guevara, a former cabinet minister, tried to come to power by arms. His revolution began at dawn in Guayaquil, Ecuador's second city (pop. 216,000) and major seaport. It ended with his humiliating arrest a couple of hours later by the army officers he thought would join him. By 4 p.m. the same day, he was in the massive...
Long before Jim Finnegan moved into the headlines as a friend of Bill Boyle's, St. Louis knew him for a lawyer-politico with a bright-hued future. In 1944, Franklin Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis. In the Truman era, Finnegan-an old and close friend of Harry Truman's-took more round trips to Washington than any other Democrat in town. He was talked about as possible mayor of St. Louis, federal judge or even U.S. Senator from Missouri...