Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friends. The President had other troubles of his own stubborn making. Even after Honest Harold Ickes accused opportunist Oilman Ed Pauley of trying to bribe the Government with a $300,000 donation to the party, Harry Truman said he still wanted Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy...
...less opportunist than before, Germans were joining the Communist Party...
...more than luck went into the making of Miguel. Hard worker, shrewd opportunist, Alemán was always quick to see the lay of the land. As a student he specialized in worker-protection laws when such legislation was only a gleam in the revolutionary eye. When Cárdenas expropriated foreign oil holdings, Alemán organized state governors behind that popular stroke. Astute choice of Avila Camacho as presidential winner in 1940 and successful management of the campaign brought him the key cabinet post of Minister of the Interior and his present, apparently in-the-bag chance...
General Christison, sending Dutch colonial administrators on ahead, strongly suggested that they talk things over with Soekarno and other nationalists. The colonials agreed. But from The Hague to Australia, Dutch tempers flared. Soekarno, the Netherlanders roared, was a puppet and an opportunist. The Dutch Government would talk nothing over with him; more likely it would try him as a war criminal...
Strong Man Juan Domingo Peron, the soldier-opportunist who yearned to be President-Dictator, had tried everything: the trappings and struttings of Fascism, anti-U.S. nationalism, an anti-Communist witch hunt. He had promised the moon to the Argentine working man, the same moon to Argentine industrialists. He had made gestures toward U.S. democracy, and had hinted at lining up (if worst came to worst) with the U.S.S.R. By last week's end, the returns were pouring in and they were not pleasant reading for Colonel Peron...