Word: democratic
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Flailing his arms and thumping his desk in a nearly empty Senate chamber last week, Wyoming's freshman Democratic Senator Gale Me Gee loosed a rambling tirade in his campaign to help New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson block confirmation as Secretary of Commerce of former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss (TIME, June 15). Charged McGee: Strauss was guilty of "evasion" and even "falsehood" during the long, quarrelsome Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee hearings on his nomination...
...weeks, the House had been working on a bill to replace one that had piled up a $3 billion wheat surplus in Government storage bins. What it finally brought forth, by a vote of 188 (176 Democrats and twelve farm-state Republicans) to 177 (114 Republicans and 63 Democrats) was a legislative monstrosity. Even the bill's sponsor, Oklahoma Democrat Carl Albert, admitted: "Nobody wants the bill . . . None of the farm groups, wheat organizations or producers support it." But if nothing else, the House wheat bill lived up to a time-hallowed political principle: When in doubt, give...
Cheap at the Price. The emergence of rumpled, chubby Silvio Milazzo, 56, as the voice of his island's traditional separatism had typically Sicilian origins. A Christian Democrat since early youth, Landowner Milazzo was a reliable party wheel horse up to the time ambitious former Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani (TIME, May 26, 1958 et seq.) began to slip his bright young men from Rome into Sicily's Christian Democratic organization. Last October, outraged by this infringement on Sicilian autonomy (and threat to Sicilian patronage), Milazzo bolted the party. He managed to get control of the regional assembly...
Invited to address the Woman's National Democratic Club in Washington as its first "nonpolitical speaker" in ages, Actor Ralph Bellamy, a superb young Franklin D. Roosevelt in Broadway's long-running Sunrise at Campobello, startled the ladies by opening with a political announcement. Said Bellamy forthrightly: "I'm a registered Democrat-but I voted...
Lafayette College Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Democrat, Maine LL.D. Governor Mark Hatfield, Republican, Oregon LL.D...