Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberal Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas than to the other court veterans. But capable Administrator Warren aspired to be more than a mere dissenter, and he is credited with using his considerable persuasive talents to work out majorities for the liberal views. With the appointment of New Jersey Democrat William Brennan, there was formed a B.B.D. & W. dominant liberal bloc-Black, Brennan, Douglas and Warren. While no court bloc is ever hard and fast, this group-over a wide range of cases-frequently managed to make itself into a majority with support from Justices Harlan and Frankfurter...
...Noted with approval Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's announcement that, in keeping with a White House request, he would help set up a bipartisan senatorial panel to consult with the Administration on the five-nation disarmament talks in London. The Senators appointed, said Texas Democrat Johnson, would go to London "at any time the President deems it essential...
...Listened quite patiently as Democrat Paul Douglas, whose home state of Illinois ranks No. 1 in corn production, urged a congressional joint resolution "designating the golden corn tassel as the floral emblem of the U.S." In support of his proposal-duly referred to James O. Eastland's Judiciary Committee-Douglas read a sort of poem written by the late Edna Dean Proctor...
...CHINA AIR ROUTES for U.S. airlines will be urged by Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, Senate Commerce Committee chairman, who proposes that resumption of U.S. passenger and mail flights would be good first step toward opening trade with Chinese Communists. Pan American World Airways and Northwest Airlines hold certificates to fly to China, but cannot do so until State Department drops travel...
...took young Democrat Richard C. Lee three tries (missing on the second by two votes) to unseat plodding Republican Undertaker William Celentano as mayor of heavily Italian, heavily industrial New Haven, Conn. (pop. 167,700). It has taken aggressive ex-Reporter Lee, 41, only 3½ years to give his cramped old birthplace (founded 1638) new pride in something more than its elm trees, Yankee traditions and Yale University. Firmly scuttling nostalgia ("Our greatness lies in the future"), Lee has put New Haven foremost among New England cities in striking at the illnesses that plague all U.S. municipalities: the exodus...