Word: dealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declared himself squarely behind Dwight Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism, faced some vociferous barking from the sideshows during the three-week campaign. Among the barkers: eight-term Congressman Alvin O'Konski, 53, whose campaign manager decided to sell O'Konski's blend of domestic New Dealism and mossbacked foreign policy by television and newspaper spreads "just like you sell a new potato salad" (and brought him in third). Another was Gerald D. Lorge, 35, a "fighting marine" who fought a campaign in Joe McCarthy's image, came in sixth to discover what nearly everyone else realized: even...
...advisers describes Gronchi's politics as New Dealism with a strong admixture of Roman Catholic liberal thought. He believes that to fight Communism, the Christian Democrats must get nearer the working class and present a progressive program which Nenni's fellow travelers would be compelled to support. He has never urged, say his advisers, that Nenni's Socialists be brought into government...
...COMMITTED TO NEW DEALISM...
...entwined with another problem: the supersensitive mood of Congress. The four Senators who talked Army Secretary Stevens into the hurtful "Memorandum of Understanding" were all Republicans, but they were acting as Senators arrayed against the Executive, not as Republicans arrayed against the Democrats. Even that solid Percheron of New Dealism, New York's Herbert Lehman, defended his last month's vote for McCarthy's committee appropriation by saying: "To withhold all funds from a legally constituted committee of the Senate would furnish grounds for a plausible claim that its activities has been sabotaged." This congressional esprit...
...probably the most widely reprinted editorial cartoonist in the U.S. (TIME, June 22). But nationally, the P-D's unpredictable behavior makes its editorials much less a power than its crusading news columns. Readers, who now think of the paper as the unwavering voice of New and Fair Dealism, forget that in 1936 the P-D supported Landon against Roosevelt. And when F.D.R. gave 50 destroyers to Britain in the early days of World War II, the P-D screamed that he had become "America's first dictator," ran its editorial in full-page ads across the country...