Word: politicos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose. A boyhood admirer of William Jennings Bryan, serious-minded young Lew sold newspapers and magazines on the streets of Spokane, where his family moved when he was eight, saved every cent for a college education. At the University of Washington he became a formidable debater, a campus politico, a precinct committeeman in the Democratic Party before he left the classroom. Friends recall that he became a Democrat because the state was full of Republicans; he figured he could get in on the ground floor...
...politico-economist, Laski acquired a brilliant international reputation. He is a great pal of Washington's more vehement New Dealers...
Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser this week offered a solution to one top politico-economic problem of the Surplus Property Board-postwar operation of Utah's $200,000,000 Geneva steel plant. Kaiser announced that he is forming a "syndicate of western financial and industrial interests to be known as the Kaiser syndicate," to lease Geneva from the Defense Plant Corp. and operate it. The syndicate may include the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., now concluding a merger with Wickwire-Spencer Steel Co. Kaiser informed DPC President Sam H. Husbands that the syndicate also has "under consideration" plans to build...
Senator Eduardo Chibas, Cuba's pint-size, pistol-packing politico, has fought two gun duels (nobody hurt) and a saber duel (one wound, Mercurochrome size). A fortnight ago he flourished a weapon again. During Havana's meat riots (TiME, June 18), police used tear gas freely. Burning with indignation and clutching a small revolver (see cut), the Senator dashed into the melee. "Shoot me too!" he shouted to the police. They declined...
...denounce quiet, smooth-faced TVA Chairman David Eli Lilienthal, 45. Time & again, in the hope of clubbing TVA into submission, he sought to bring its day-by-day finances under the control of Congress. Frustrated, he bided his time and nursed his grudge. This spring many a Washington politico believed that the 76-year-old spoilsman had TVA squarely in his sights at last. His enemy, David Lilienthal, faced reappointment for a nine-year term, and McKellar's influence in the Senate and the South could not be lightly considered by a fledgling President...