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...ring (actually he was born in New Hampshire), but the very fact that L'Heureux is a member of the State Department could have been enough to earn him the chill on the hill. Added to that, his job is one calculated to stir the suspicion of every politico who keeps an eye on the grand old flag-as chief of the visa division, he has been responsible for the delicate and controversial business of admitting foreigners...
Enamored of politics, he began affecting frock coats in order to look like a politico. He poured out $1,500,000 in an unsuccessful try for the 1904 Democratic nomination for President. Next year he actually won the New York mayoralty in a bloody election, only to see Tammany rig the count and cheat him out of his victory. In 1906, he was defeated by Charles Evans Hughes for the governorship of New York. In 1922, still nursing a political ambition that reached all the way to the White House, he made his last cast for office, began a campaign...
Paris' Samedi Soir called it le drame politico-passlonnel. The principal characters: Subway Conductor Jean Laffargue, 41, his wife Yvonne, 37, and Rene ("Little Napoleon") Desvillettes, 47, mayor of the deep-Red Communist suburb of Champigny. All three were loyal Communists and diligent party workers. Trouble started when the politico got mixed up with the passionnel...
...legislature in 99 years, appealed for help. But Duff, with dogged consistency, insisted that he had never tolerated meddling when he was governor and he would not try it now. Duff men at Harrisburg wondered whether there really was much that Jim Duff could do. Said a G.O.P. politico sadly: "Jim Duff, hell, he's just a junior Senator from Pennsylvania down in Washington. He's off in deep left-field and he's got the sun in his eyes. One of these days the ball's going to get out of the infield...
...last week Syrian Premier Khaled el-Azem, a veteran politico who plays along closely with Syria's big landowners and the army in the hope of some day becoming President, announced that his country would not ask Washington for Point Four aid. Alleged reason: fear of "Western imperialist penetration...