Word: parliamentarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mayor: The ceremonial head of the city, he is elected from the City Council by a vote of its members, and presides at its meetings. Except as parliamentarian, however, he possesses no position of leadership, as his vote counts no more than that of any other Councillor, and since he has only a Councillor's responsibility for initiating action. By 18 years' precedent, Cambridge mayors serve only one two-year term...
Ugly Realities. Herter did a shining job during his twelve years in the legislature, rose to be speaker of the lower house during his last four years, 1939-43. "He was the best parliamentarian the legislature ever had," says Democrat John Powers, now president of the state senate. In 1942, at the urging of Massachusetts Republicans who wanted to unseat an isolationist G.O.P. Congressman, Herter agreed to run for Congress, scraped by with some help from that old Massachusetts political custom, a gerrymander of his district...
Died. Ichiro Hatoyama, 76, onetime (1954-56) Prime Minister of Japan; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. A peppery parliamentarian who in earlier days often got into fist fights in the Diet, Hatoyama would have become Premier in 1946 had he not been purged by Douglas MacArthur for his prewar militarist sympathies. He was depurged in 1951. As Prime Minister, he visited Moscow in 1956, formally ended the official state of Russo-Japanese hostility that had lingered on from World War II, opened the way for Japan's membership...
...gavel Cannon's head during a conference committee hearing. But he is also the House's hardest-working member (roughly, from 10 a.m. to midnight seven days a week) and one of its ablest. Brought to Washington in 1911 as aide to Speaker Champ Clark, Lawyer Cannon became parliamentarian, began compiling his monumental Procedure and Precedents, by which the House still does business. In 1922 Cannon was elected to the House from Speaker Clark's old district, Missouri's Ninth ("The Bloody Ninth"), which sprawls across 24 northeastern counties and includes Mark Twain's Hannibal. As the dour guardian...
Winston Churchill: "A great parliamentary figure, but not a great parliamentarian. He never took the trouble to understand procedure. He always had a general idea that he might talk whenever he pleased ... I once had to say: 'I must remind the Right Honorable Gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.' . . . What Winston always requires is some strong people round him saying, 'Don't be a fool over this.' I remember Lloyd George saying to me once, apropos of something, 'There's Winston-he's got ten ideas on this...