Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another able, honest politico, Governor Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut found himself last winter well on into middle age (52) with little or no money in the bank. Wherefore he decided-definitely, he said-to give up public life and work for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company at $30,000 a year, with prospects of becoming president of the company at $75,000. But people wondered: could Ray Baldwin really bring himself to give it all up-a prospective seat in the U.S. Senate and further opportunities to serve his country in a great period of history...
Alias Schacht. To the man of the field and to the great mass of city workers, Peron was both a smiling politico ready to backslap even convicts in the federal pen, and a gaucho St. George battling a reactionary dragon. Peron's "battle of the 60 days" had already frozen or reduced prices of four chief food staples: bread, sunflower-seed oil, sugar, spaghetti. Few realized, or perhaps cared, that the gaucho who looked like St. George was really more of a Hjalmar Schacht. In good Nazi tradition, the export market was subsidizing the domestic. Examples: the Argentine Government...
...Hanrahan, no politico, is a partner in a Manhattan law firm (Sullivan, Donovan & Heenehan). Though he professes to have no Wall Street clients (except one Government bond house) the downtown location of his office was enough to arouse some congressional opposition to putting a "Wall Streeter...
...this way the Administration, which has posed as the foe of bigness in business, settled one of the hottest politico-economic questions of the year in favor of bigness...
...basic trouble was political. With every politico wanting some surplus articles, or thinking he wanted them, for schools and cities back home, no one was getting much of anything. Out of the $15 billions in declared surpluses, only $2.3 billion had been sold, and the Government got only $942 million in cash. And the investigations going on seemed to do more harm than good. Said General Gregory: "All this pressure from Congress and its various committees had made WAA a little timid about doing anything drastic...