Word: bipartisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swinging campaign, Opponent Wolden accused Christopher's administration of permitting San Francisco to become national headquarters of "organized sex deviates." The charge, which cosmopolitan San Francisco considered bad manners, queered Wolden with most of his fellow Democrats and all the city's newspapers. Christopher's big bipartisan victory set him up as one of California's few surviving victorious Republicans and a man with a future...
...Senate, tacked to the foreign-aid appropriation a bipartisan rider that was the session's only serious civil rights move by either party: a two-year extension of the President's Civil Rights Commission. Result of the rider: a Saturday night filibuster by Southern Democrats, delaying adjournment into this week but not changing the outcome...
...barrel packed with projects dear to the folks back home-and offensive to Ike because it called for 67 new projects not in the Administration's budget. The bill originally rolled through the House on a thunderous voice vote, rumbled on through the Senate with a hogshead-sized bipartisan majority...
...days before Secretary of State Christian Herter took off for a new round of the Geneva conference on Berlin (see FOREIGN NEWS), a bipartisan delegation from Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy marched into his office to voice some grave misgivings. The committee's worry: in spite of a technically interesting scientists' agreement last week (see SCIENCE), the U.S. seemed to be floundering around aimlessly at the other Geneva conference-the nuclear-test-ban negotiations that have dragged on since last...
Presidential recollections go on and on. Last week the Washington Post and Times Herald drew some lively ones from old (70) Headwaiter William Reid, long the Pullman Co.'s major-domo in charge of private railway cars for the White House and State Department. Reid's bipartisan White House favorites: Harry Truman and Grace Coolidge. Of Harry: "He got up every morning at 6, and we'd stop the train so he could take his walk." Of Gourmand Warren Gamaliel Harding: "He'd eat anything." Of Calvin Coolidge: "He never used to say much, except when...