Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strange Interlude. Senator Burt Wheeler, tirelessly anti-Roosevelt, concurred with Pearson, though for different reasons. Mr. Roosevelt will not be a candidate in 1944, predicted the Montana Democrat, because "a definite Republican trend has set in and the President will be able to sense this far more quickly than any of his advisers." The Senator then threw a left hook; he doubted that any Democrat could be elected President in 1944, "unless Wendell Willkie is the Republican nominee...
...minority Slovenes. The Partisans made Marshal Broz president of the Committee and chairman of a special Defense Committee. Next they chose a presidium and placed at its head an aging, upright Croat: Dr. Ivan Ribar, first president of Yugoslavia's Constitutional Assembly after World War I. To aid Democrat Ribar, the Committee named Serbian Communist Mosha Pijade and two other vice presidents, one a Croat, one a Slovene. Then they were ready...
What began as a sincere inquiry into why the people of Boston do not love their neighbors ended with their getting a new Police Commissioner. Last Friday the Governor appointed 65-year-old Colonel Thomas F. Sullivan, a South Boston Irish Democrat, to succeed Timilty. Commissioner Sullivan's first statement on Boston antiSemitism: "Kid stuff. . . ." His first official act: to suspend six police officials indicted for conspiracy with gambling operators...
...Sherman Act, or the . . . Clayton Act, shall be construed to apply to the business of insurance." The Senate Judiciary Committee is getting ready to report out an identical bill, introduced by Indiana's bespectacled, hard-shelled Frederick Van Nuys and North Carolina's implacable Old Democrat Josiah Bailey. At first blush, the two bills look like a bold-faced -and well-lobbied-attempt to anticipate a pending decision of the highest court in the land. But the Congressmen had an issue far loftier than lobbies. They were in full cry over States' rights...
Latest ratifier is Columbia University's Henry Steele Commager (The Growth of the American Republic, The Heritage of America), whose Majority Rule and Minority Rights contains a surprising reservation (about the U.S. Supreme Court), a surprising admiration (for Congress). Professor Commager is an unabashed small-"d" democrat who believes in the right of the majority to do what it pleases. Not that Professor Commager would contemplate with equanimity the extinction of 49% of the population by a tyrannical 51%. He knows that democracies have sometimes utilized the franchise to vote their own demise. But Professor Commager has an unbounded...