Word: bipartisanism
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...every avenue of welfarism," and wondered "just how the 'new Republicanism' of the Eisenhower Administration differs from the Fair Deal-unless partisanship prompts the conclusion that the Democrats would be spending even more lavishly." New York's Daily Mirror took a dim view of the "strange bipartisan silence" over "the deep resentment among the people against high taxation...
Foreign Policy. Both support self-determination for all peoples, freedom for Communist satellites, U.S. aid for underdeveloped countries, a strong United Nations, an unequivocal ban on U.N. membership for Red China, regional mutual security pacts such as NATO and SEATO, the Good Neighbor policy, bipartisan conduct of foreign affairs, a release of U.S. prisoners in China, and reciprocal trade hedged by selective but vaguely defined protective tariffs. At issue: in the explosive Middle East, the Democrats advocate sale of "defensive weapons" to Israel; the Republicans pledge themselves to "support the independence of Israel against armed aggression...
...businessmen achieve first-class political citizenship? In some states, e.g., Ohio, California, they have formed political organizations on a continuing basis. Individual companies also are gingerly tackling the problem with campaigns to register employees, bipartisan presentation of issues and candidates in forums and house organs. Westinghouse, for example, devotes equal space in its company newspaper to candidates of both parties, prints each party's statements verbatim. Johnson & Johnson, No. 1 U.S. maker of bandages and surgical dressings, has started a nonpartisan political-education program that has prompted 80 employees to hold political office in states where the company...
...their Chicago meetings early this week, boarded an Air Force plane sent to fetch them and flew to Washington for a special briefing on U.S. attitudes on the world's gravest international problem. At the White House, they were ushered into the Cabinet Room for an 80-minute bipartisan discussion about the Suez Canal...
Stepping nimbly through details of the bipartisan congressional defeat of the school construction bill (TIME, July 16), he left the impression that he primarily blamed "a lot of Democrats"-"they not only killed my bill but they helped to kill their own." He conceded that rising steel prices present an inflation "danger sign," promised that the Administration would watch the problem "closely every day." He snorted at a suggestion that his soil-bank program was a device to buy farm votes, blamed Congress for not passing it early enough to be of more...