Word: antimonopolists
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...Reform is a dense, rich intellectual history of how the antimonopolist reform impulses of the early New Deal--in which modern industrial capitalism was seen as a flawed system that needed to be repaired--gave way to a rights-based liberalism that accepted capitalism as it was and concentrated instead on civil rights and a full-employment economy. The subtext of Brinkley's book is that the unremembered battles fought by idealistic liberal bureaucrats in the '30s and '40s are part of a never ending American struggle between the conflicting national impulses that Alexis de Tocqueville described as communitarianism versus...
...most notable was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party that Hubert Humphrey helped nail together in 1944 just before he became mayor of Minneapolis. The Farmer-Labor Party was radical in its origins, with mostly rural, Scandinavian Protestant members and roots in the antimonopolist, Greenback and Populist movements. The Democrats were mostly urban and more conservative, with strong Irish, German and Catholic elements. Within a decade of the merger, the D.F.L. emerged as the dominant force in Minnesota politics, breeding a remarkable collection of national figures like Humphrey, Orville Freeman, Eugene McCarthy and Walter ("Fritz") Mondale...
...Winner? Last week Goldwyn, trailing publicity men and photographers, arrived in Reno to help drive the last nail into the floor. Antimonopolist Mary Pickford, who helped found United Artists in 1919 to fight the big distributors in early Hollywood days, drove the nail herself. That night, Up in Arms opened triumphantly...
...insurance industry had made a well-heeled attempt to lobby Congress into legislating it out from under a Federal antitrust action now before the Supreme Court (TIME, Nov. 29). The attempt blew up in its face last week. The man who planted the mine was Wyoming's conscientious antimonopolist, Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney...
...chairman of the Committee is Wyoming's hardworking Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, whose efforts to modernize the anti-trust laws endeared him to Franklin Roosevelt (and earned him sufferance for fighting the President's Supreme Court plan). Beside Chairman O'Mahoney will sit his antimonopolist colleague, Senator Borah of Idaho, and Utah's colorless, querulous old Senator King. The House members, besides Mr. Eicher, are fiery Hatton Sumners of Texas, sophisticated Brazilla Carroll Reece of Tennessee (Republican...
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