Word: strongmanism
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...smartest political pros in the city's history. TIME's evaluation of De Sapio in that story (TIME, Aug. 22, 1955) got considerable documentation last week at the New York State Democratic convention in Buffalo, where De Sapio clearly came out on top as the new strongman of his party-not merely in New York City, but in New York State. Even more significantly, in the five-day catfight he came out the conqueror of Governor Averell Harriman (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955). At the same time, New York Republicans held a two-day love feast, nominated Nelson...
Among Arab leaders, Iraq's late Nuri asSaid probably led all the rest in the bitterness of his public excoriations of Israel. But fate appears to have played a last weird trick on the murdered Iraqi strongman. Out of Jerusalem last week came a strange story: Nuri Pasha's only survivor may be a 16-year-old Jewish boy now living in an Israeli border kibbutz...
...party nation, its Democrats and Republicans have quarreled savagely over every aspect of national policy save one-foreign affairs. Last week this time-honored truce was abruptly broken. The man who broke it was none other than ex-President Ismet Inonu, 73, successor to Turkey's late great Strongman Kemal Ataturk...
...Pinch. In San Benedetto di Verona, Italy, a circus crowd watched Strongman Giuseppe Armandola take on four members of the audience who came forth to challenge him, saw Giuseppe flatten two of them before the others overwhelmed him, soon learned that the winners were cops and Giuseppe an escaped convict...
Throughout his long life, in which he had served 14 times as Premier and for 27 years as Iraq's strongman, Nuri had lived both dangerously and adroitly. "The man," he insisted, "has not been born who can assassinate me." He knew he was hated by many, regarded as a "British stooge" in the kingdom set up by the British...