Word: straddlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youthful Front for Idealism, Great Britain's Captain Anthony Eden; his more practical Elder Uncle, Sir Samuel Hoare, who can use the word "we" with more force than most; their boss, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who makes the "we" significant; and France's Premier and magnificent fence-straddler, swarthy Pierre Laval. Laval as Foreign Minister reached an agreement with Just-A-Man in January which Laval as Premier is having a Frenchman's own time in trying to keep. Since coming into office in June he has been sufficiently perplexed by France's economic and political...
...Democrats who voted against the President. North Carolina's Robert Rice Reynolds felt the need to hedge his vote. He proposed an amendment to the relief bill, now buried in committee, which would pay prevailing wages only where they would not compete with private industry. "I hate a straddler," cried he. "I hate a man who stands so that people cannot tell where he stands. . . . We should stand on one side of the fence or the other, or else take the fence away and then the people cannot tell where we are standing...
...great U. S. statesmen who does not feel his position altered by the shift in his country's political balance is Idaho's Senator Borah, the straddler magnificent. Always he has been just Republican enough to bear the name but always he has been poised on the crux of great issues, waiting until lesser men have spent their arguments, to impart his Olympian conclusions. His last great cry was for an Honest Dollar. Now that the dollar has moved Leftward to 60?, his cry is for collecting the War debts, a notion that Calvin Coolidge used to play...
Jumping into the political fray. Mountain-Straddler Albert showed his statesmen how to do it. After four days of intensive negotiations behind-scenes, the cabinet withdrew their resignation, steadied the Brussels and Antwerp stock exchanges, which had begun to slip...