Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter would not make pretty invading weather. This week Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell, onetime chief of the Imperial General Staff, warned that the invasion might come during the winter-that the Germans had a precedent in Moltke's winter attack on Denmark in 1864. Because a politico-military offensive was shaping up farther south did not mean that an offensive could not be simultaneously launched in the north...
...Franklin Roosevelt looked close to victory in the 1940 election. With the West, South and Border States almost solidly for him, he apparently needed only a brace of Eastern States to coast home. But Franklin Roosevelt was never a chicken counter before hatching time. Apparently he was the only politico in the Democratic Party not suffering from overconfidence. Conversely, Wendell Willkie seemed the only major Republican not suffering from defeatism...
...Wilson's New Freedom, partly incorporated in the New Deal. It is for Roosevelt I, the subject of the first half of the book, that Josephson reserves his more withering disapproval. Irked by T. R.'s nationalism and strong foreign policy, unable to call him either politico or robber baron, Josephson calls him an aristocratic bureaucrat, backs it up by statements of aristocrats at the Habsburg court...
Local Rooseveltites will get the jump on the G.O.P. as far as publicity is concerned, for the initial third term rally, to be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Emerson D, will get a full page spread in Life magazine, according to head Democratic politico John M. London...
...Texans wondered which lay more heavily on FTC minds, purgatives or politics. Paced by Politico Hal's key-noting speech at the recent State Democratic Convention (held in Crazy Hotel), the Collins machine had taken an anti-New-Deal, anti-Third-Term stand, toyed with the idea of plumping for Willkie. Whereupon revolt broke loose against the Collins machine. And New Deal Congressman Clyde L. Garrett (since defeated for renomination by a Collins candidate) went after Collins' business flank, threw nothing in the way of the FTC complaint...