Word: machiavellian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bingham is the HYRC member at whom Robert C. Fisher '51, NSA delegate, levelled several charges when Fisher resigned from the HYRC last December. The accusations stated that Bingham headed a "Cloak and Dagger Department" which was run in a "Machiavellian atmosphere...
Fisher also attacked the "Machiavellian atmosphere" of the HYRC. He referred to a "Cloak and Dagger Department" (headed by Arthur W. Bingham '51) which, he said, at various times had considered 1) wrecking the NSA, 2) packing the Student Council, 3) infiltrating into the Liberal Union, 4) smearing candidates as Communists, and 5) printing birth control leaflets and distributing them under the name of prominent NSA officers in order to cause dissension between those officers and the Catholic schools...
...they grew; the Hubbard family is seen in 1880, 20 years before The Little Foxes. They are a horrifying image of the newborn New South: a self-made, egomaniacal father (Fredric March); a deeply pious, almost mindless mother (March's wife Florence Eldridge); a mild-seeming, Machiavellian son (Edmond O'Brien); a whining, fatuous son (Dan Duryea); a diamond-hard daughter (Ann Blyth). Night & day they connive against each other; during any chance breathing spell they work on their neighbors...
...democracy work under disadvantages which those in totalitarian states are spared. A free press which loves sensations and spy stories, a prying Congress which controls the purse strings, and a foreign policy which is inclined to vary sharply with public opinion and administration polities, all detract from the Machiavellian efficiency which is considered the ultimate goal of espionage. On the other hand, a too independent and efficient intelligence service which cannot be controlled by its own government, will always develop a tendency to make its own policy. Such a bureau, the prime example of which was Admiral Canaris' unit...
...Machiavellian Father. His life might have been modeled on Poe's. His Methodist father, a well-to-do candy manufacturer, seems to have been not merely an unsympathetic parent, but a capitalist reactionary who delighted in Machiavellian devices to keep his son's talents from flourishing. He put him to work 17 hours a day in a drugstore, with promise of "promotion" to out-of-town selling. When Hart got a sales job, with Washington, D.C. his territory, his father sent him there in the summer when the weather was so hot that the candy in his sample...