Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hands characteristically clasped behind his back, tall, 28-year-old King Baudouin, slim and erect in a plain military uniform, walked to the Speaker's rostrum, bowed to the left and the right, told the joint session of Congress: "I am here to register the solidarity between the people of Belgium and America...
...national survival. In a bracing new book on Congress and the American Tradition (Henry Regnery; $6.50), a conservative political philosopher speaks up this week in Congress' defense. The defender: muscular-minded James Burnham, 53, former New York University philosophy professor who made a still-rippling intellectual splash back in 1941 with The Managerial Revolution...
...says Burnham, the presidency has become "the primary democratist institution." A democratist tone was already audible in President-to-be Woodrow Wilson's pronouncement, back in 1908, that the U.S. "craves a single leader." Democratism's big thrust came in the early years of the New Deal, with Franklin Roosevelt pushing batches of White House bills through Congress and even challenging the Supreme Court in his notorious (but illfated) court-packing plan...
...convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in Miami, Massachusetts' Presidential Aspirant John Kennedy got a big hand and a pat on the back when he explained that his legislation was "the best bill we could get by the U.S. Senate." Said I.L.G.W.U. Boss Dave Dubinsky, in an introduction that all but stitched the I.L.G.W.U. label on Democrat Kennedy: "There has been considerable talk in informed circles about the possibilities of his holding the highest post in the nation ... If this should happen, we will have a better America and better legislation for the working people...
...Toed the communist line in the 30's as a champion of Negro rights hailing the Soviet Union's "leadership" in this cause, advocating "class struggle," attacking American education as slanted to back the "dominant capitalistic order," and writing for a magazine that prominently advocated "a social upheaval that will plow up our present institutions to their very roots and substitute a socialist order for the present capitalist imperialist order...