Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Massachusetts. Republican Governor Leverett Saltonstall, running for the Senate, was so popular throughout his state that last week a Democratic politico commented: "They won't count his votes, they'll weigh...
...Nish, an important position on the Athens-Belgrade railroad, seemed designed to cut off the last Germans in Yugoslavia and Greece. Malinovsky was liquidating the Germans' Balkan venture, with yeoman help from Tito's Partisans and the British in Greece. But while he was carrying out this politico-military mission he was not forgetting the main job. Germany would feel the heavy hand of his army...
...American Farm Bureau Federation. In the course of a debate about teacher unionization, Mrs. Roosevelt asserted that, in rural communities, a teacher with an idea always risked the danger of attack by "someone from Mr. O'Neal's organization [here she lowered her voice to a pompous politico gruffiness] saying that it is a very dangerous doctrine!" It brought down the house...
Died. James Edward ("Pa") Ferguson, 73, homespun, gallus-snapping Texas politico; of apoplexy; in Austin, Tex. In 1917, during his second term as Texas' Governor, he was impeached for using state funds to pay private debts. Barred from further office-holding in Texas, Pa sponsored his wife "Ma" on a bargain billing, "Get two Governors for the price of one." Ma served two terms as Governor (at public functions she always slipped off her shoes to rest her bunions), signed over 3,000 pardons on Pa's advice...
Soon Franklin Roosevelt will be smack in the middle of his Term IV campaign. He will also be smack in the middle of one of the toughest politico-economic dilemmas of his career: he must decide whether to relax the Little Steel formula in order to permit the wage increases demanded by the A.F. L. and C.I.O. If he allows wages to rise, price stabilization might collapse; if he holds the lid down on wages, he may lose important labor support...