Word: politicos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land where the words for democracy and politics were coined, sly old Politico Eleutherios Venizelos, whose first name means "Liberty," had last week resorted to civil war because he lost the last elections (TIME, March 13, 1933). "Venizelos has gone mad," cried Premier Tsaldaris. But everyone knew that the old wizard of Greek politics must have known he had a 50-50 chance before he risked open revolution. Last week those were still the odds...
...film libraries of Prince Saionji coming & going between his Tokyo home and the Imperial Palace. These and older scenes-Versailles (1919). Washington (1922), Manchuria (1932)-together with new exclusive views of delegates to this winter's London Naval Conference are tied into a narrative essay on the current politico-military situation in Japan for The March of Time audiences...
...nothing but low comedy, with stark selections from Chekhov, Strindberg, Ibsen, Turgenev. After a fortnight, murder and melancholy break out all over the impressionable community. After seeing The Father, the local butcher throws a meat ax at his wife. After seeing An Enemy of the People, the local politico votes against the Government and precipitates a national election. The proprietor of the play pavilion saves the situation by firing the lugubrious Thespians and hiring a circus...
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore last week harbored the jolliest of patients. He was Senor Manuel Luis Quezon of the Philippines. The President of the Philippine Senate and No. 1 politico of the Islands kept the entire staff in stitches, rumpled all kinds of hospital rules. Senor Quezon, 56, had plenty to keep his spirits up: his longtime dream of Philippine independence from the U. S. was well on the way toward reality; he confidently expects to be the Islands' first President; he had kept Senora Quezon in Manila from worrying by entering the hospital under the name of Pedro...
...gallstones. But the would-be President of the Philippine Islands would have no truck with euphemisms. Well did he know that if the Filipinos, no prudes, ever caught him in a lie, they would certainly suspect him of suffering from a disability worse than gallstones. Therefore shrewd Politico Quezon ordered Dr. Januario R. Estrada, his personal physician and traveling companion, to telegraph a full and simple description of Dr. Young's operation to the Philippine Press. United Press helped Dr. Estrada by cabling to Manila at reduced press rates the following astonishingly frank report...