Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official reason for the recall was that the President wants Democrat Richards to take part in a bipartisan meeting on foreign aid at the White House. But beyond that was a factor that at once highlighted the success of the Richards tour and limited its future usefulness. A few days earlier, the U.S. Sixth Fleet, dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean to "hold up the hand" of Jordan's King Hussein against his enemies, churned the waters from Syria to Egypt in a dramatic display of U.S. might. At the same time Jordan requested-and Washington immediately supplied...
...Friendly Climate. Lawyer Hiss wildly overstates the climate against him. The fact was that much of official Washington was solidly and politically on the side of Democrat Hiss at the time that Chambers challenged him. President Harry Truman called the hearings before the Republican-controlled House Committee a "red herring"; Secretary of State Dean Acheson declared he would "not turn my back on Alger Hiss...
...Congress still seemed more interested in the political possibilities of budget-cutting. No sooner had he received the President's letter than Speaker Sam Rayburn renewed his talk about tax cuts. A top Democrat reacted to the message with a sneer: "It don't amount to a sneeze in a cyclone...
...retired to a South Carolina farm this year to spend the rest of his life "fishing and hunting, and lying in the sun, and watching my cows eat grass." But to Addis Ababa last week journeyed James Prioleau ("Dick") Richards of Heath Springs, S.C. A longtime (1933-56) Congressman, Democrat Richards, 62, had dutifully postponed his fishing and cow watching to undertake, at President Eisenhower's request, a mission as vital to the success of U.S. foreign policy as any since the Korean...
...moniker awarded him by the chief of Washington State's Swinomish Indians. himself as "electrician." Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-20) Franklin D. Roosevelt crossed out his "Episcopalian" church affiliation, did not restore it until the 1924-25 edition. Just before 1940's Republican Convention, Democrat Wendell Willkie prophetically retrieved his form, altered his political affiliation to "Republican...