Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virginia gentleman and astute politician that he is, Lindsay Almond in victory pooh-poohed any notion of a split with the venerable Byrd organization-and went out of his way to shake hands with the diehards. But Virginians could hardly help noticing that as the Old Dominion turned away from Byrd's disastrous massive resistance policies, Lindsay Almond was very much in command...
...from Segregation. In the solid granite Capitol in Raleigh, white-haired Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges, 61, businessman turned politician, totted up some headline statistics that proved the vigor behind his fondest dream: from January to March, industry built some $25,000,000 worth of new plants in North Carolina to add 5,600 new jobs (up 40% over 1958) paying $16 million a year (up 46%) to the state's payrolls. Showing its heels to its industry-hungry neighbors, North Carolina would almost certainly better its 1958 total of $253,000,000 in new-plant investment, tops...
...representative from Boston's upper-crust Fifth Ward decided to retire from the state legislature. He knew and liked Herter, and so did the ward's Republican leader, who had roomed with Chris at Harvard. Talked into running, Herter won. Aristocratic, sometimes aloof Christian Herter, a fellow politician once said, "never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street"-but he has never lost an election...
Certainly, there is an occasional "politician" (in the worst sense of the word) whose egotism eventually finds its way into moral and political laxity, but there are over eighty College-wide undergraduate organizations, not counting the numerous House groups. How many students are there in these groups--organizers, producers, managers, entrepreneurs, paper-pushers, as well as political administrators--who never take the step toward irresponsibility? Mr. Levy's reasoning is true in some cases, to his regret and mine, but applying it as broadly as the article does is doing a disservice to the hundreds of students involved in some...
Although he is the first to admit that he is neither a politician nor an economist, Seeger firmly believes that no policy decision is so complicated that ordinary people should be denied a voice in its formulation. "Someone once said that 'military matters are too important to be left to generals...