Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a few trustbusting suits where they will do some vote-getting good (with an eye on the farm vote, it plans to move against farm machinery manufacturers soon). In 39-year-old Herbert Bergson the Administration thought it had a man who would be a good politico-legal trustbuster...
...smooth sailing. In Eugene a group of student hecklers from the University of Oregon plopped down in the front row, diligently leafed through copies of LIFE with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
...were sure they knew what was up. King's visit and the support of federal bigwigs for God-bout indicated that Ottawa's Liberal big guns would move to Quebec for the provincial elections. If the whole federal battery was going to work on Duplessis, that swashbuckling politico might be in for some rough times, even if the Tories came to the support of his Union Nationale...
Small as these groups are, however, the controlling minority within them is far tinier. In all, not more than a dozen men are in control of the entire system. Yet the records prove that their abilities are far greater than the average student politico elsewhere, enabling them to generate the noise and interest that has made Harvard a political hotbed today
Once, as a "reverse Rhodes Scholar at Yale," chubby Geoffrey Crowther toured Georgia with three other collegians in a ramshackle flivver. He enjoyed every muddy mile of it. Since then, as editor of the Economist, he has covered the U.S.- and the world-like a politico-economic bird dog working a new, field. And he has made the weekly Economist Britain's most influential periodical...