Word: politico
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone who knows Austria knows that the statesman-Monsignore is her most astute, most potent politico, dominating the Christian Socialist (majority) party, making and unmaking cabinets. He has twice made himself Chancellor (Prime Minister...
...career, the organization of the present Mexican air force, a hard business head, an adeptness in Latin-American politico-commercial intrigue...
...that department had long collected liquor taxes. Under Harding no good prohibitor would trust the task to Harry Micajah Daugherty's Department of Justice. President Hoover now favors the change, and his rejection of his close friend William J. Donovan as Attorney-General seemed prompted, aside from alleged politico-religious considerations,* by his desire to entrust future enforcement in the Department of Justice to a personal and constitutional...
...political "pardner" of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Crowe tried to "knife" Judge Swanson in last month's election and "throw" the office to the Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special Prosecutor Frank J. Loesch, the fearless, aging Presbyterian whom Chicago's civilian Crime Commission engaged some months ago to do what State's Attorney Crowe and Mayor Thompson were leaving undone. Judge Swanson planned to take...
...classed as "Social ists" if he was one - the late Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Hughes, Vice President Dawes, Nominee Curtis, Frank Orren Lowden, Senator Borah, etc., etc. Nominee Smith nailed the deceptive use of the Gompers quotation and kept his whole reply on that political level. Instead of elaborating a politico-economic theory, he simply said: "There is a very wide differ ence between public ownership and public control of water power sites, which in the first instance belong to the people them selves, and the operation and ownership of a going business [e.g., railroads]." He defended his Prohibition proposal only...