Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, which had heard all this before, calmly went about confirming Mrs. Roosevelt's appointment. Quickly they approved the rest of the first-string team the President wanted to send to London-former Secretary of State Ed Stettinius, Democratic Senator Tom Connally, Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes. But the debate had only begun. As the names of Harry Truman's five alternate delegates were read, Arkansas' liberal Democrat J. William Fulbright got up with a glitter...
...peacetime terms, as in the final analysis, it was the battle of the compromising democrat against the implacable Left. And in this conflict the democrat was under severe handicaps. Some of the handicaps were self-imposed. In the democracies, pundits and plain people alike were simply afraid of using the four-letter words of contemporary politics. They refused to recognize or admit that the Left was indeed implacable-as it was in Russia or in the words of Britain's Harold Laski. Like the notion of sex in a previous generation, this thought was too dangerous, or too horrible...
Senator Tom Connolly, fancy-dressing, fancy-swearing Democrat from Texas, uttered a prosaic "damn" on the Senate floor, got tutted by Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, ex-undertaker, who considered the word "beneath the dignity of the Senate." Connally promptly withdrew the word ("I know my colleagues are delicate"), swore he was just quoting somebody else, and thus "it wasn't my word...
That morning Pat Hurley read of an attack in Congress on his China mission and himself by Representative Hugh De Lacy of Washington, a leftish Democrat. It followed the pattern of many previous attacks: Hurley had been more interested in giving supplies to Chiang to fight the Communists than he was in bringing Chiang and the Communists to unity; he had committed the U.S. to armed intervention. De Lacy's conclusion: the U.S. should express regret to China that she was a house divided and withdraw its forces...
...election results showed tremendous new vitality in parties akin to M.R.P. In Norway and Denmark similar groups, with a Lutheran instead of a Catholic background, also showed gains. In Italy, although no election had been held, the same strengthening of the center was registered by the choice of Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi to form a new Cabinet...