Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...were 90 days behind. Fortnight ago he declared that out of 400,000 loans studied, only eleven were likely to show a loss to the Government. Cried Ohio's Representative Sweeney: "If the Government loses on only eleven out of 400,000 loans, then Mr. Fahey is a wizard...
...Dealers, this tall husky 61-year-old Senator-elect was not an ardent New Dealer. During the campaign he promised: "I will support President Roosevelt-in every proper manner." Father of ten children, Democrat Donahey makes no pretense at being an intellectual giant or a political wizard. As Ohio's Governor, he used to employ a Columbus newshawk to write his speeches and State papers, used to staff the Executive Mansion with servants selected from "trusties" at the State prison...
Last week Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans of the Ku Klux Klan sounded from Atlanta "the clarion call to battle" against Huey Long. Here and there a bold Louisianan tearfully predicted "killings and bloodshed in this State." Newspaper editors in & out of the State deplored and decried. But it remained for sophisticated Columnist Westbrook Pegler to write from Baton Rouge...
Many a Republican is convinced that if the Democrats cannot keep control of the Government while spending upwards of $5,000.000,000 per year on millions & millions of voters, then Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the political wizard his friends make him out. Yet Republicans in Congress continue meekly to vote for most of the appropriations the President requests for fear that, otherwise, their constituents will oust them from office. Last week, however, Republican Representatives to a man rose and screamed at the sting of a political hornet the like of which few of them had ever known before...