Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grade, to work for a carting firm as a $3-a-week dispatcher's helper. Industrious, personable, and gifted with a flair for oratory, he early caught the eye of the Fourth Ward's Democratic political chieftains, fellow Irishmen all. When he was 21, a Fourth Ward politico got him a job in the office of the commissioner of jurors, serving jury duty summonses, and from there the ladder of politics led upward. Elected to the state assembly in 1903 at 29, he became speaker of the assembly in 1913. In 1918 he won the first...
...could be deducted from state income tax. "Put the overall program into effect as soon as possible," urged the study committee. "We may have less time than we think." "The legislature wouldn't pass a mandatory program like that until a bomb had been dropped," said one Albany politico. Said Rockefeller: "I would rather face political suicide than have our country or state wiped out by a nuclear attack because we did not have the courage to face up to our problems...
...open candidates, began to jab the Republicans-and each other-a little harder. In Santa Ana, Calif., hard by Nixon's home town, Humphrey said the Vice President would be a "negative, nogo, go-slow, not-now, veto type of executive." At a rally of the amateur-politico California Democratic Council in Fresno, Kennedy warned that the party "would be committing a grave error if it ever tried to out-Nixon Nixon."* Nonetheless, at the same rally, the names of Nixon and of Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, were booed and hissed (California...
Candidate John Kennedy emerged from the tidy city hall in Nashua, N.H. and walked down Main Street, smiling, shaking hands, waving as he went. A crowd of 100 chattering well-wishers flowed after him, and at his side. Royal Dion, a dry cleaner and local politico, kept up a round of introductions. The weather was snowy and cold; the crowd was in fine humor and distinctly pro-Kennedy. Passing Sardy's restaurant, Senator Kennedy paused to wave at the patrons through the steamy window, went on to accept the best wishes of a contingent of grocers at the California...
...fell out. No crammer, Ronald was a bit of a prankster. He particularly disliked Classmate Hugh Dalton, later Chancellor of the Exchequer. On an exam paper asking "What are the oldest parts of the book of Exodus?" Ronald altered Dalton's paper to read "oddest," and the future politico listed all of the grosser passages...