Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever since he left for Japan last March. Brazil's newspapers sent their top men to catch Quadros in Japan, Turkey, Israel, Europe. Quadros missed not a beat on the toast-quaffing circuit, had something at every stop to tickle Brazil's minority groups. Said a Rio politician: "Janio won Brazil's Japanese vote in Tokyo, its Italian vote in Rome, the Jewish vote in Tel Aviv." Everywhere, Janio outlined his platform: the same kind of honest government that brought a boom when he was governor (TIME, March...
...official: Quinn was elected (by 4,000 votes) over the favorite. Democrat John A. (for Anthony) Burns, 50. territorial delegate to Congress, onetime Honolulu cop. one of the architects of Hawaii's Democratic Party, a leader in the long battle for statehood, and just about the most sinewy politician in the islands...
Sure enough, waiting at Leningrad airport was a friendly, waving crowd-including one Red Chinese who mystified all present by grabbing Nixon's hand and blurting out an apparently cheery but unintelligible greeting. Politician Nixon proceeded to give Politician Kozlov a boost with the home folks. "Mr. Kozlov," Nixon informed the crowd, "told me several times that one cannot come to the Soviet Union without visiting Leningrad." "Da!" interjected Kozlov loudly as his fellow citizens chuckled. "These are your constituents," grinned Nixon...
With one sweep of the politician's practiced eye, Nixon sized up the situation: he was clearly getting the cool hello. On hand was a little group of welcomers from the U.S. embassy led by Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, and the 56 U.S. newsmen who had preceded Nixon by an hour in a record-setting (8 hr. 45 min.), nonstop flight in a new, long-legged Boeing 707 from New York. The face of the Soviet Union was the familiar grin...
Died. Douglas McKay, 66, lifetime Oregon Republican politician who became President Eisenhower's first (1953-56) Secretary of the Interior; of a heart ailment; in Salem, Ore. From a humble beginning, spare, jaunty McKay built up a political career along with a thriving Chevrolet agency, rose from state senator to Governor (1949-53). Wary of big government, McKay trimmed operations at Interior, incurred the wrath of trigger-sensitive public-power supporters, none more relentless than his fellow Oregonian Senator Wayne Morse who beat him handily in the 1956 Senate race...