Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME. June 17), which govern the arrangements for law enforcement for U.S. troops overseas. Waving off all remonstrances, Bow did experience at the last moment a tactical change of heart. He decided to save his amendment for the actual appropriation bill, where it would be more potent. But Texas Democrat Omar Burleson grabbed the issue, offered a "sense of Congress" amendment calling on the President to revise the status-of-forces agreements to give the U.S. exclusive jurisdiction over U.S. servicemen who commit offenses while on duty overseas. Loaded with homeside political dynamite, it was a tough bill...
...Guided Democrat. At home, the quarreling and corruption of Indonesian politics irritated him. The yes men who surrounded him in his nation's first days turned to no men once they were elected to the newly formed Parliament and owed their power to him no longer, but to the electorate. Sukarno disowned even the Nationalist Party which originally was his creation. Only one group stayed slavishly loyal to him, no matter what he said-the Communist Party, which also escaped the brunt of his corruption charges for the reason that it has never been in the Cabinet. When Sukarno...
...higher vertebrates in a generation of publishers that included such well-spined warriors as William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and Colonel Robert McCormick. As a journalist, he practiced his preachment that newspapers "should tell the truth as only intellectual honesty can discern the truth." As a politician, Democrat Cox was also notable for intellectual honesty. And he almost achieved the classic American cycle: born on a log-cabin farm, he got to be a Congressman and Ohio's governor; he was his party's presidential candidate in 1920, ran a good race in a bad season for Democrats...
...dagger tale would seem unbelievable. But in the last two years the whole segregation controversy has had some strange and frightening effects on the Ole Miss campus at Oxford (pop. 3,956). Last week, in a series of articles on the morale of the university, the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times told just how serious those effects have been. Of 136 assistant, associate and full professors, 31 have resigned to seek "greener and freer pastures" elsewhere...
Concluded the Delta Democrat-Times from its interviews with the faculty: ''The fact that it is almost impossible to get good replacements [for those leaving] makes the situation even more alarming. After all, prospective recruits reason, why come to Mississippi for less money and less freedom...