Word: democratic
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Fulbright, a Democrat, is a former Rhodes Scholar and former President of the University of Arkansas...
...Fidel Velázquez, a sincere and able democrat, replaced exotic, eloquent, brilliant Vincente Lombardo Toledano (a school mate of the President's who still calls him by his first name) as secretary of Mexico's most powerful trade-union alliance (the C.T.M.). Under Velázquez the C.T.M. has been purged of Lombardo's Stalinist influence...
Died. Daniel Calhoun ("Uncle Dan") Roper, 76, old-line Democrat who became the first New Deal Secretary of Commerce (1933-38); of leukemia; in Washington. Son of a Marlboro, S.C. Confederate officer, he began his political career with a congressional clerkship during Cleveland's second administration. As Wilson's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, he was the first to fail at Prohibition enforcement. As Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce, the oldtime Methodist dry became a butt of brain-trusters, but did a good job of placating big business with speeches as tasty as the famous watermelons he served...
Back cracked Senator Tom Stewart, Democrat of Tennessee: "I predict that the words uttered by the little Governor, self-admitted Presidential timber, will live to haunt him. ... It is indeed unfortunate the young man should net have a national viewpoint instead of the narrow and provincial...
Costa Rica's President Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia assured Mr. Wallace that of all visits from foreign greats, "none has been so glorious as yours, due to the fact that you are a fellow citizen of that peerless democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said Henry Wallace, for publication: "I am not a politician...