Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after election, Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright stirred up a hornet's nest. In Philadelphia, venerable birthplace of the Constitution, Democrat Fulbright made a bold suggestion. The Republicans had captured Congress; why not let them take over completely? Said...
...Democrats and Republicans leaped to protest in unison. An anonymous Administration spokesman called the idea "utterly fantastic" (it would lose the Democrats the last remnants of federal patronage). Buzzed Oregon's G.O.P. Senator Wayne Morse: "Blind partisanship" (it would give a Democrat the power to appoint a Republican President...
...public recognized a few. Handsome Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts had been a G.O.P. Senator before he went overseas in the Army. Alabama's able John J. Sparkman was Democratic whip of the last House. The white-thatched, placid face of Ohio's John Bricker-who had unseated down-the-line Democrat James W. Huffman-was already familiar...
...also tragedies. The Hokah (Minn.) Chief reported: "The body of Wencil Beranek, 65, was found in a creek three and a half miles east of Waldorf. It was on its back and eyeglasses were still in place. Two pennies were found in a pocket." And the Jasper County (Ind.) Democrat recorded: "Irene, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Neeley, passed away at the Riley Hospital. She had been a patient for the past four years suffering with a heart ailment...
Does the North pick unmercifully on the South? Can the South solve its racial and economic problems by itself? Both these questions got a partially affirmative answer last week from Hodding Carter, youthful publisher of the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat-Times. No bourbon-&-magnolia reactionary, Carter won a Pulitzer Prize this year for his forthright editorial stand against racial intolerance (TIME, May 20). In a Saturday Evening Post article, Southerner Carter admitted that the South has a chip on its shoulder, then let go some resentment toward carping Northern critics. Wrote...