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...crusade against the New Deal. For a long time he seemed hopelessly licked; the people came to see him, but down, down he went in the polls. Hoarsely and hopefully he fought on. On the very day he fell the lowest in the polls, when the. shrewdest possible politicking seemed necessary just to save him from landslide defeat, he stood in Detroit, after hecklers had thrown a melon and a wastebasket at him, and spoke not for votes, but made a plea to American mothers to "teach our children to believe in America...
...Elected to the New York Assembly on the Socialist ticket in 1917, he crusaded in vain for social security, free higher education for all, other reforms. Reelected, he was ousted in the Socialist purge of 1920. Later he thrice ran for Governor, became one of the nation's shrewdest labor lawyers...
...situations on the great board were of far-reaching importance: 1) the developing internal crisis of Germany (see below) which might change the course of the whole game and lead to new, startling combinations of power politics; 2) the meeting in Rome of one of Europe's shrewdest chess players (Marshal Tito) and Britain's outstanding political-landscape painter (Winston Churchill). The meeting might be the opening gambit in new plays for power in Italy (see below), in the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean...
...mind, Phil Murray proposed an organization which would promote labor's interests within the two-party system, but which would have a platform and party workers of its own. The choice of Sidney Hillman as head of the P.A.C. was obvious-he had long been labor's shrewdest, most pragmatic politicker, with connections in the White House...
...invasion called out Dr. Kung's shrewdest, toughest talents. The Jap blockade of the China coast ended the country's biggest source of revenue-customs receipts-and the Jap conquest of the northern salt mines cut off the second largest source, the salt tax. In his softest mandarin manner, Dr. Kung wheedled governments and bankers from the U.S. to Czechoslovakia for credit. He upped taxes as much as the sweating coolies could stand, winked at the grafters and then squeezed the squeezers. Gradually he was forced to open the floodgates of inflation wider & wider until it has many...