Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like the others, he challenged the committee's constitutional right to ferret out a man's personal politics. "But," he said, "let me break the suspense immediately. I am not a Communist. I never have been, and don't intend to be. I am a Democrat, who in my youth was a Republican. Now if the committee is interested in the reason...
...Democratic committee also installed a new chairman, Senator J. Howard McGrath, the New-Dealish Rhode Islander who had been Harry Truman's personal choice to run his campaign (TIME, Oct. 6). McGrath had no sooner taken over the chair from ailing Bob Hannegan than he had a chance to demonstrate his ability to duck. The committeemen had prepared a resolution condemning almost in toto the work of the 80th Congress. McGrath spiked the resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor...
...southwest Pennsylvania fifteen years ago with a set of documents he called the Horn Papers. They were full of surprising new findings about Pennsylvania in the 17005. Soon a series of articles, based on what he said were family diaries, began to appear in the Waynesburg (Pa.) Democrat Messenger. The diaries no longer existed; but Horn explained that he had made careful copies of them...
...activities of movieland Red is a most vicious folly, serving only to keep the Committee itself, which is the real Un-American menace, in the two-inch headlines until it can make itself really dangerous. The victims may then be the colleges or the independent newspapers. Certainly nobody, Democrat or Republican, is safe when Louis B. Mayer, a dear friend a Hearst, has to defend him self against Communist charges...
...Bulgaria last week, three visiting U.S. Congressmen, Senator Carl Hatch, Democrat, and Representatives John Davis Lodge and Walter H. Judd, Republicans, decided to perform a simple act of reverence that would dramatically assert the traditions of Western civilization...