Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hotel. They were there to elect a new national chairman, hand-picked by Harry Truman: smooth, 46-year-old William M. Boyle Jr., a veteran Kansas City politico. And at Boyle's insistence, they were there to expel some fifth columnists from the Party of the People...
...jury had already returned 58 indictments against 25 people, had brought the cold sweat of apprehension springing to the brows of many a high-placed gambler and politico...
...time, after casing the situation, he decided that the moment was not quite ripe. The trouble was that the mine workers' union was all-powerful in West Virginia politics, and to the union boys, Louis was just another rich lawyer. "Like a good woman's virtue," one politico explained recently, "Louis' conservatism is taken for granted in West Virginia...
...when Joan ditches her job with a broken-down carnival and meets up romantically with Deputy Sheriff Zachary Scott. Next she gets a respectable job as a local waitress. Before she ends up in the town's biggest mansion, as the wife of the state's biggest politico (David Brian), she has to take a series of plot hurdles and heartbreaks. Biggest hurdle of all is Scott's vicious, milk-drinking boss (Sydney Greenstreet...
...crowded with correspondence and conferences. Harriman assigns administrative detail to others, reserves policymaking for himself. Invariably he schedules a "business lunch"; among his guests have been almost all of Europe's bigwigs. For dinner he usually invites his own aides. Noon or night, the conversation sticks to politico-economic lines; Harriman has no small talk...