Word: politicoes
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...campaign aides, an insurance salesman named Seymour Terry, the sort of nuts-and-bolts politico New York newspapers generally label "a veteran of the West Side political wars," started Beame's administration off with a bang. Terry sent a letter to his insurance customers informing them that his new position as the city's director of special programs would undoubtedly mean "even greater benefits" for them than they'd had in the past. When The New York Times published the letter, Terry acknowledged that it had been poorly worded. Beame asked Terry to resign. That was only the beginning...
...Dome scandal. Twice in the past dozen years, Chicago has turned to Attorney Barnabas Sears to pursue charges involving the city's police force. In New York City, Judge Samuel Seabury raked and ultimately broke the corrupt Roaring Twenties administration of Mayor Jimmy Walker; Thomas Dewey probed the "politico-criminal alliance" that underlay the city's racketeering...
...notes-for a novel. Although it is not intended to be autobiographical, it will trace the rise of a country lawyer to the Senate. Praising Author Baker's savor of his fellow Tennesseans, his publisher, Doubleday & Co., is encouraging him to include a relationship that links the freshman politico with a venerable Senator who sounds remarkably like Baker's own colleague, Senator Sam Ervin...
Living in Vermont with her husband of 42 years, Actor Melvyn Douglas, the ex-politico has been watching the Watergate hearings and raking up old memories. Among them: voting against a House resolution that would have forced all Executive agencies to make confidetial information available to Congress−a bill fellow California Representative Nixon voted...
...with The or any other movement; splinter groups ad infinitum, closed circuit appeal, and the impotence of social protest that caters at best to the audience of educational television, and at worst, which is more often, to little more than the egoism of its leadership. The situation--a fatigued politico surrounded by his socialist progeny and friends--has all the makings of a humorous subject. Humor however, is not the strong point in any of three stories. As for the temptation, about which the author seems a trifle undecided, it seems to be the dream life Orkney suddenly discovers after...