Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What tack would the U.S. take in the months to come? If the occupation of French North Africa had posed a thorny politico-moral issue, still unsolved, it was nothing compared to the complications which would arise with, say, a Balkan invasion-on which Russia would most assuredly have to be consulted. Until now, Russia has not shown her hand-a fact compounded of Soviet secrecy and a negative Anglo-American policy. Whether or not such a Balkan adventure was ever contemplated, there was urgent reason right now for an Anglo-American political understanding with Russia, and the means...
Though he is no friend of the farm bloc, Prentiss Brown will get along with Congress far better than Leon Henderson. He is quiet, unobtrusive, unspectacular. He has a politico's respect for sore toes. And on Capitol Hill he is known warmly as an engaging, modest first-termer who arrived in Washington as a wearer of old-fashioned nightshirts, a man whose idea of a good time was to visit Washington's old cemeteries...
...TIME said of Vice President Wallace that he had failed to grow up as a politico, that in consequence, to professional politicians, "he would always have a kick-me note attached to his coat-tails." (TIME also took note of his qualities of thoughtfulness and idealism.) If Philosopher Durant regards this as roughneck editorial opinion, TIME is sorry but unconvinced...
...abhorred their Italian allies and rejoiced when the Spanish Reds massacred them. When the war ended, Franco bargained well for leftover Axis materials. "Both Italy and Germany were charging merely second-hand prices for the [military] materiel, but the real payment was to be made on a politico-military basis in the future: Spain was to aid the Axis in the war to come...
...wartime administrator, was still the kind of man voters would love to swat at the polls. So was Presidential alter ego Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, universally believed to be the man Franklin Roosevelt had chosen as his successor, had failed to grow up as a politico: for all his good intentions and ready-made opportunities, he was still the same thoughtful, bashful, stumbling man who used to throw boomerangs at himself in East Potomac Park. To professional politicians, Democratic and Republican, he would always have a kick-me note attached to his coattails...