Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quiet, unspectacular, he enjoys the confidence of all sides. Until he supported Al Smith in 1928 he was a Republican; now he calls himself an "independent Democrat...
...Inspiration. The House Republicans had a sudden inspiration. The Democratic-controlled Ways & Means Committee had fumbled the tax job. Minority Leader Joe Martin called a conference of twelve Republican steering committee members. Their strategy: grab the tax bill when it reaches the House floor, substitute pay-as-you-go reduced to its simplest terms, in a modified version of the Ruml plan. Sense as well as strategy was on their side, for many a disgusted Democrat would not vote for the committee bill. The possibility was not remote that the House might overturn its no-longer-august tax-making committee...
...varied from the norm only in details. In 1899-at the age of eight-redheaded Carl Spatz (later changed to Spaatz) was the youngest linotype operator in Pennsylvania. He operated the machine in the Boyertown, Pa. print shop where his Pennsylvania Dutch father and grandfather published the Berks County Democrat. Carl had a happier time playing the guitar, which Father Spatz taught him in the evening. Father Spatz, who became a state senator, got him an appointment to West Point, so off he went in 1910, lugging his guitar...
...fight without being stabbed in the back for the sake of politics. . . . If I ever get home and am out of the Army, I'll be glad to stand up for my own honor. ... I don't care whether a man is a Republican or a Democrat. Let's get together and get this damn war won! I'm tired and I want to go home and live in peace on my ranch...
Even more significant was the inability of liberty-loving Social Democrat Vainc Hakkila, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, to form a coalition government. Hakkila was one of the chief exponents of an early peace with Russia, and a Cabinet headed by him might well have included Juho Paasikivi, onetime Minister to Stockholm and Moscow, who has the confidence of Joseph Stalin, and may yet be available for negotiations...