Word: schemers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schemer von Papen was more success ful in putting the skids under the German Republic. One of the last of the Republic's Chancellors, he wanted to get back into the driver's seat. With Junker sup port, he helped persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor, believing naively that the Fiihrer would become a figurehead and that he, von Papen, as Vice Chancellor would be the real power in a "Barons' Cabinet." Only hitch came when the Nazis, once in power, took the bit in their teeth and ignored Driver von Papen...
...Grandfather" was Albert Brisbane (1809-90), a dreamer and schemer of socialist Utopias who inherited all the money he ever needed. Tall, withy, high-strung Seward Brisbane is a lot like him. He quit Harvard after two years "because I couldn't get interested in sitting around drinking with other fellows who had money," later worked briefly and unhappily as a Mirror reporter, spent a year in France. Now he is studying at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, wants to get into politics "on the reforming side." Toward newspaper work he feels an "intense hostility." Reason...
...legal staff, he can come & go on a thousand purge missions without being unduly publicized. President Roosevelt likes him, listens to him, laughs with him, trusts him. delegates him. This makes "Tommy the Cork" (as the President calls him*) sound like a shrewd, insinuating schemer-which he is -but for reasons more tough-minded and lawyerlike than his critics credit. From his point of view, the firm of Corcoran & Cohen started out to do a job for a client -the President of the United States. If remaking the Democratic Party is part of that job, Partner Corcoran is well...
...sticking at nothing, only one thing more was needed to make Adam's apples bob in Austrian throats. Also at the snuggery, panicky Austrians learned, was the German who was suspected in the U. S. during the War of implication in the Black Tom explosion, the master schemer and intrigant German Ambassador to Austria Franz von Papen...
...snug, prosperous, heavily industrial Kingdom of the Belgians and its rich jungle Congo empire, even the worst Cabinet crisis is almost never cause for alarm. Reason: the extraordinary prestige and stabilizing ability of the Throne. Its power is a legacy from that masterly European schemer Leopold II, who died in 1909, and from his heroic successor, Belgium's Wartime King Albert. Fortunately, the throne next came to young King Leopold III, today easily the outstanding European crowned head in strength of mind and leadership. Last week His Majesty, having presided for some days over the vain efforts of Belgian...