Word: bipartisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCormack was an expert poker player, a talent that endeared him to Jack Garner, who was later called "a poker playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man" by John L. Lewis, and whose own political career had been given a hefty bipartisan push forward by a poker-playing Republican, "Uncle Joe" Cannon. McCormack became a Garner protégé. At the beginning of McCormack's second full term, the Democrats took control of the House, and McCormack went to Speaker Garner with a timid request for an assignment to the Judiciary Committee. "Hell," growled Garner, "we want...
...married "Princess Alice" Roosevelt, Teddy's daughter. He was an elegant, scrupulously fair presiding officer, and a skilled parliamentarian who won friends on both sides of the aisle and prestige for the House through his assumption that all Representatives were as honorable and gentlemanly as himself. With his bipartisan "Big Five," he set the pace for the famed "Board of Education," an informal gathering where the leaders of both parties could get together after each day's session for drinking and legislative planning...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, defeated in 1960 when he proposed compulsory home fallout shelters, offered a new plan that has bipartisan support and should win speedy approval in a special session of the legislature opening next week. Under it, the state would help finance shelters to protect all 4,063,000 students and staff members of New York's schools and colleges, both public and private. The state would fully finance shelters for its own 115,000 employees. Homeowners would get no state money, but would get help in securing bank loans to build shelters, and legal...
Improved Box Score. Inevitably, most of John Kennedy's new judges will be deserving Democrats. The Administration, for obvious political reasons, turned down an A.B.A. appeal to preserve the bipartisan status quo of the present bench division (157 Democrats. 159 Republicans). The trend toward bench Democracy has already caused some agitation. Boston legal circles complain that the Attorney General has been toying with the nomination of Municipal Judge Francis Morrissey to a new Massachusetts district judgeship. A gladhanding Democratic politician, Morrissey has had little trial experience as a lawyer, but he is a longtime friend of Joe Kennedy...
Home from a tour of the Philippines, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 81, who had his differences with the last Democratic President, received an unexpected invitation to a White House luncheon with a bipartisan body of Government leaders. After President Kennedy praised MacArthur for his "triumphant" tour, the general thanked the President for making him "feel a part of the current scene." Later the vigorous vintage soldier offered his impressions of the onetime sailor in the White House: "He seems to have changed very little since he was one of my PT-boat commanders in the Pacific...