Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, Ohio, 85%; voice quality good, delivery fair, mannerisms poor, poise fair. "Notably inept at speech-making," Senator Taft is marked down nevertheless as a "phenomenon of the politico-radio world." Reason: after his series of 13 radio debates with witty Congressman T. V. Smith, a radio veteran, on New Deal policies early this year, a Gallup Poll totted the score thus: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Explanation: "He speaks a homely common sense with a sincerity that makes people listen to him anyway...
...welcomed the use of its huts but resented the attentions of its gladhanding, often sanctimonious secretaries. Latterly the Y. M. C. A. in the U. S., with its $212,000,000 in property and endowment and its $48,000,000 income, has been accused-because its high command eschews politico-economic controversy-of being socially laggard, of being a closed corporation in which working secretaries tend to become older and older. Nevertheless, if the Y. M. C. A. has diluted its Christian message in nominally Christian nations, it has become a powerful force for Christian leadership elsewhere in the world...
...amend the Wagner Act; rehabilitate the railroads. A major effort by Joe Martin's House Republicans last week to discontinue the President's power to decrease further the dollar's gold content was defeated 225 to 158. >Received last week by many a Republican politico was a "teaser" postcard setting forth magnificent qualifications for the "logical Republican candidate for President." It was followed by a card naming "the man who fulfills ALL requirements!!!!" The man named: Senator Henry Styles Bridges of New Hampshire...
...Race. After the D. A. R. kept Miss Anderson out of Constitution Hall and Eleanor Roosevelt quit the Daughters in protest (TIME, March 6, et seq.), a Marian Anderson Citizens' Committee went to work to rebuke Negrophobes. In so doing, it put on the spot many a politico to whom the U. S. Negro vote will be important...
...Phillips prayed only four times in the Senate. Reason: by Senate rule he prayed only on legislative days; and (because the Senate often recesses without adjourning) one legislative day sometimes went on for weeks. Last week, overjoyed by a resolution introduced by West Virginia's hard-bitten old politico, Senator Neely, and passed unanimously, Chaplain Phillips was, according to its terms, praying every working...