Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese are a secretive people. Only last week were correspondents able to form a clear picture of what has been occurring in Manchuria and Japan. There exists in the Japanese army an ultranationalistic politico-religious society of younger officers, so secretive that foreign correspondents do not even know its name. Avidly have these officers yearned for the conquest of Manchuria. It is they who assembled the 300 Incidents, a list of Manchurian insults to Japan widely publicized in the Japanese press. Last summer a delegation of these younger officers called with their list on Premier Wakat-suki, Foreign Minister Baron...
...Lenin is prankish Sir Oswald Mosley, rich playboy politico. Deserted by Oliver Baldwin and by his wife (Lady Cynthia Mosley M. P. excused herself from seeking re-election "on account of poor health"), Sir Oswald put-18-queer candidates, mostly athletes, in the field. His star candidate: "Kid" Lewis, whilom English middleweight champion, a pugilist of no political experience who will contest Whitechapel where he lives, is popular with the rabble...
Twice I have read, among other inaccuracies in TIME, accounts of Detroit's politico-economic situation written by or obtained from persons either deliberately unfriendly to Mayor Frank Murphy, or ignorant of the facts...
...Cortes at Madrid, Minister of the Interior Miguel Maura laid Seville's troubles directly to fat-faced Major Ramon Franco, politico-aviator, now a Deputy...
...politico of the Philippines is, with the possible exception of the same species in Porto Rico, the most politically-minded individual under the U. S. flag. Politics is his profession, his badge of honor. He practices it with a holy passion. Last week the ninth Philippine Legislature, packed with politicos dedicated to independence from the U. S., sat for the first time. As custom requires, Governor General Dwight Filley Davis appeared before a joint session of the House and Senate to deliver his legislative message. He was heard in stony silence and allowed to depart without applause. He had dared...