Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opportunist. When the Japanese Army leaders, who have the ear of their Imperial Majesty Hirohito, cast the die for war in 1937, they thought it would all be over in a few months. They could make out a good case for their belief...
...Count never declared openly against eventual Habsburg return, saying that it was "a matter for the future." He was equally vague about all other domestic issues, preferring to pursue a secretive, opportunist course toward economic recovery and political stability. Fixed elections and Sphinxlike silence on controversial problems kept him in power. In foreign policy he snuggled close to Benito Mussolini, managed to keep on passably good terms with Yugoslavia and Rumania, but detested Eduard Benes, the Czech Foreign Minister, who tried to get his scalp in the 1925 French banknote forgery scandal involving the Count's close associates. Count...
...appropriating $100,000,000 more for WPA until June 30, instead of $150.000,000 more as demanded by President Roosevelt. With pain and blushes Majority Leader Barkley abandoned the President's figure in the face of certain defeat, while the President transferred leadership temporarily to Florida's opportunist Senator Pepper. The bill went to the President...
...success of Representative Martin Dies at rabble-rousing with his committee on Un-Americanism. Bob Reynolds admires Opportunist Dies. He has seized upon his issue of "isms" in the U. S. and, while liking Naziism better than Communism, he last week announced a new U. S. mass movement based on opposition to all foreign "isms...
...Candidate McMasters who polled 48,000 votes in Massachusetts' Republican primary for Governor, although he did not have the official Townsend accolade. Nor was his deal with Candidate Saltonstall the brainchild, as many observers guessed, of shrewd young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. It was engineered by an opportunist even shrewder: William Henry McMasters...