Word: politicoes
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...wartime administrator, was still the kind of man voters would love to swat at the polls. So was Presidential alter ego Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, universally believed to be the man Franklin Roosevelt had chosen as his successor, had failed to grow up as a politico: for all his good intentions and ready-made opportunities, he was still the same thoughtful, bashful, stumbling man who used to throw boomerangs at himself in East Potomac Park. To professional politicians, Democratic and Republican, he would always have a kick-me note attached to his coattails...
...neither he nor any other Ohio politico was prepared for what the "listless" voters did at the polls. Republicans gained eight seats in the House, the biggest turnover in any State; handsome, grey-thatched Republican Governor John W. Bricker won by 375,000, the biggest majority ever given an Ohio governor. It was the lightest vote since the early '20s, but it was not the Republicans who stayed away. The G.O.P. had gained in previous off years, but never this much...
...State that the natives call West-By-God Virginia, a machine politico named Matthew Mansfield Neely was licked in his race for the U.S. Senate. New Dealer Neely is a man of furious loves and hates: he likes the New Deal, flashy clothes; hates any West Virginia politico who crosses him. To Matt Neely, in & out of public office since 1908, defeat was bad enough; worse was the fact that it was administered by a handsome, young (47 years old) lawyer making his first political campaign, a Republican upstart with liberal leanings and a storybook name: Chapman Revercomb...
...eleven months overdue. As far back as last April Nelson appointed a reconnoitering committee, headed by bombastic, nonscientific Maury Maverick, ex-Congressman, ex-mayor of San Antonio, to make recommendations for a bureau of production research. Maverick did his work quietly for once. Yet the result was a politico-scientific rumpus which brought to a head the issue: should WPB's research problems be assigned mainly to big, well-heeled research plants or to small, specialized laboratories? For a solution, much depended on the character of the man appointed to head OPRD. WPBoss Nelson has neatly avoided committing himself...
Economist Peter Drucker has written a long, able, Emersonian essay that cannot be disregarded by anyone who pretends to think about the problems of the postwar world. For it is one of the most provocative treatises on the central problem that bedevils this generation-the politico-economic structure of society...