Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wall Street long ago got acclimated to the oratorical williwaws blowing north from Congress. But last week, even Wall Streeters' tough ears tingled. Oklahoma's bulldog-jawed Democrat Lyle Boren, head of a sub-committee probing the Holding Company Act, had unearthed an amazing "conspiracy" on the part of some of Wall Street's staidest investment bankers and financiers. The plot, said he, was to socialize the $18 billion U.S. electric utility industry and make "many billions" in the process...
...President of Mecklenburg is Willi Hoecker (Social Democrat); of his three vice-presidents two are Communists. The President of Saxony is Rudolf Friedrichs (Social Democrat); his five vice-presidents include two Social Democrats, two Christian Democrats, one Communist. The President of Brandenburg is Dr. Arthur Steinhoff (Social Democrat); his four vice-presidents include one Christian Democrat, one Social Democrat, and two prominent members of the Free Germany Committee, Major Bernhard Bechler and Edwin Hornle, onetime Communist Reichstag deputy...
Good Friend. The change was good Truman politics. In Jimmy Byrnes he got a regular Democrat as well as one liked by almost all Senate and House members. Harry Truman wanted most of all to get along with Congress on foreign affairs. Byrnes was also a good friend; a TrumanByrnes team should work together smoothly. Byrnes knows Washington and contemporary U.S. Government as few men do-he has been a Representative, Senator, Supreme Court Justice and "Assistant President" to Franklin Roosevelt. Harry Truman might have wished for a man with greater experience in foreign affairs-perhaps a 20-year-younger...
Cried the Christian Democrat Popolo: "There is fear of a Red revolution." Growled the Communist Unita: "The situation is grave and will certainly grow worse unless the masses are given to feel that liberation is not a vain word...
...determined democrat as well as a crusading Tory, she once had some Whitehall charwomen in to afternoon tea at 10 Downing Street...