Word: politicoes
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...that the Republican Party was not going to disappear, no matter what wrong man it chose, what platform it shied away from. The conflicts, hesitancies, choices were not going to end abruptly when the gavel fell to mark its final adjournment. Weaknesses the Party showed - many a Republican politico fell into a panic when Republicans Knox and Stimson were appointed to the Roosevelt Cabinet (see p. 11); the Committee on Resolutions pondered for countless tormented hours over how to weasel a foreign-policy plank - and such weaknesses could not be dissolved by the magic of nominating speeches...
Into Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week swarmed 750 members of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers. Coming from 70 U. S. cities, they were hornet-mad about a politico-economic national scandal. The scandal is that urban property taxes are so high that they drive population to suburbs, so that city real estate and city governments face bankruptcy together. Of the gross annual income of $7,000,000,000 derived from U. S. real estate, $4,500,000,000 goes for taxes...
...last week the President had not yet made it clear to the nation that preparedness against war was not a New Deal program but a national program. Many a stubborn citizen could honestly ask: Am I offering my support to the President or to the Politico...
Much of their instruction will come from lectures and talks by economic ministers, chamber of commerce executives, labor leaders, military officers and politicians. These are men in the South American swing of things, who run Latin politico-economic life--at least until the next revolution rolls around...
Most things pass over my skin with a laugh, but not that sticking-out-all-over-with-propaganda letter of Lady Whosis. If TIME is misled by such politico-effusions, TIME'S better informed reader...