Word: politicoes
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...that, no matter what happens, emperor worship cannot be wiped out for decades. Thus, those who favor lynching Hirohito should think twice, because "disgrace or harm to the present emperor would probably serve merely to augment the honor of the imperial line. ... No foreigner can hope to [disentangle] the politico-religious element in Japanese life...
...Franklin Roosevelt's twelve-year-old regime. To succeed the late Democratic Senator John Moses, North Dakota's Governor Fred Aandahl last week appointed lean, sandy-haired Milton R. Young, 47, farmer and Republican member of the state legislature since 1933, a politico rated "a little right of center." His appointment left the Democrats 55 of 96 Senate seats...
...with them. Catholic Mr. De Gaspari's Communist Under Secretary, Eugenio Reale, was not. In halting English, Minister De Gaspari asked when his stricken country would get economic relief, whether there was any chance of an early German armistice. As the Vatican's No. 1 lay politico, he also asked: what about Russia? Harry Hopkins listened in friendly silence, answered no questions...
Robert Rice ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, pinstriped, pompous politico, retired after twelve years as an isolationist Senator from North Carolina, announced the formation of a new Nationalist Party. Said he: "The Republican Party is dead and cannot be rejuvenated. . . . Neither of the two major political parties is big enough to hold . . . interventionists and noninterventionists, nationalists and internationalists, Communists and anti-Communists...
James Michael Curley, Massachusetts' rough-&-ruddy Irish politico, who has been mayor of staunchly Catholic Boston off & on since 1914, and is again a candidate for the job this year, received his first campaign contribution from two soldiers in the Philippines: 20 pesos, which turned out to be counterfeit...