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...Flora Politico...
...Whom. Since the Defense Commission has nothing but advisory power, the steps by which it is getting this copper were not simple. They make an enlightening case history in the politico-economics of defense...
...charges. For no obvious reason, eminent Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business, banking and politics. Like other ventures in which Businessman-Politico Greenfield is involved, the Temple din took on the vague outlines of a real-estate war. On one side were Budd, Trigg, MacCallum and Greenfield, on the other, Babcock, Parkinson, other trustees. Unhappily in the middle was President Beury...
When handsome, tough-minded Rexford Guy Tugwell was a working member of the first Brain Trust, he made one mistake fatal to a politico. He talked out loud about unfamiliar and unpleasant things. His thesis: that the world and the U. S. were drifting away from laissez-faire, should make haste toward planned economy. So, after the 1936 election, Brain Truster Tugwell resigned from the New Deal...
...that; they might think you're a Senator"). Another showed a maid telling an early-morning caller, "Oh, no, the Senator's not in; he went to seven o'clock Mass." Mexico's famed, shovel-mouthed comic, Cantinflas, built a skit around a gun-toting politico trading his pistol in for a rosary, added "They're buying holy water instead of tequila now." As with Spain, Catholic liberals have been disinclined to blame all Catholicism's trouble in Mexico on leftist politicians. For more than 300 years after Cortes conquered Mexico, the Church...