Word: politicoes
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...basic trouble was political. With every politico wanting some surplus articles, or thinking he wanted them, for schools and cities back home, no one was getting much of anything. Out of the $15 billions in declared surpluses, only $2.3 billion had been sold, and the Government got only $942 million in cash. And the investigations going on seemed to do more harm than good. Said General Gregory: "All this pressure from Congress and its various committees had made WAA a little timid about doing anything drastic...
...shadow of a shady past rose last week to smite ambitious Ichiro Hatoyama. His Liberal Party had won a thumping plurality in Japan's first postwar Diet elections; after long hesitation Premier Shidehara had recommended the stocky, 63-year-old politico to the Emperor as his successor. Then the Allied Supreme Commander spoke. "The Japanese Government," said a MacArthur directive, "having failed to act on its own responsibility, the Supreme Commander has determined the facts relative to Hatoyama's eligibility . . . finds he is an undesirable person." Hatoyama...
...Winston Churchill's recent visit to Manhattan he made a foray into politico-entomology. Said he: "Our Communist friends should study . . . the life and the soul of the white ant. That will show them not only a great deal about their past but will give them a fair indication of their future...
Monarchists gained. Pudgy, bustling Guglielmo Giannini, who skyrocketed his weekly Uomo Qualunque (The Common Man) to an 800,000 circulation by jeering at politicians, finally went political. A day before his Uomo Qualunque anti-politico movement was to hold its first national convention, he joined the monarchist Partito Democratico Italiano...
When fiery, chain-smoking Manuel Acuna Roxas announced last year that he would run for the Presidency of the Philippines, many an island politico winked significantly over his cigar. There is but one Philippine party, the Nacionalistas. According to all the rules of island politics, Roxas would soon make a deal with aging President Sergio Osmeña, withdraw in the old man's favor...