Word: politicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departure of Jim Forrestal closed the door on the last Cabinet member Harry Truman inherited from Roosevelt, and one of Washington's ablest officials. Forthright Jim Forrestal had angered the Zionists, embarrassed Democratic strategists with his Wall Street background, and refused to politick for Harry Truman in the 1948 campaign...
...always, the men who will do the real work in the convention are the professional politicos : national committeemen, congressional bigshots, state and city bosses. The ordinary delegate will have little to do but enjoy himself, politick like mad-and vote as he's told. For the first two days he will hear hours of party-line oratory, approve committee reports and the party platform, wander wearily off for a drink...
...never too busy to politick, conferred with Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan and New York State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick on the 1946 New York gubernatorial election, still 19 months away. The conversation apparently was heady. Emerging from the White House, Chairman Fitzpatrick made a bold prediction: if Tom Dewey runs for reelection in 1946, he will be defeated...
...Allied military men, who have had to fight in Africa and Italy with one hand and politick with the other, the prospect of more behind-the-lines chaos sounded dismal. To London and Algiers, who reacted quickly through long-faced cables from news correspondents, it sounded like fresh evidence of a hazy U.S. foreign policy. The French in Algiers were especially gloomy in the belief that the U.S. wants to do business with Vichy again...
...Colorado, and from the amateur boxing contests which earned him his nickname. But since Jan. 20, when the Denver County Democratic Assembly unanimously endorsed him for Congress, no candidate has ever been so completely muzzled. Until his discharge from the Army (expected this week), he is forbidden to politick. So Democrats have sheltered him from photographers, have booked no speaking dates, opened no headquarters. They even hustled him off to Wichita to keep him out of sight...