Word: democratic
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Ugly Realities. Herter did a shining job during his twelve years in the legislature, rose to be speaker of the lower house during his last four years, 1939-43. "He was the best parliamentarian the legislature ever had," says Democrat John Powers, now president of the state senate. In 1942, at the urging of Massachusetts Republicans who wanted to unseat an isolationist G.O.P. Congressman, Herter agreed to run for Congress, scraped by with some help from that old Massachusetts political custom, a gerrymander of his district...
...York city council, in a crackpot mood, voted 23-1 to appoint a committee to study secession once again, this time not from the grand old Union but from New York State. Reason: Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Republican-run state legislature were, in the words of Brooklyn Democrat Joseph T. Sharkey, "robbing us." The point: New York City contributes roughly 50% of the state budget, gets back only 38% of state expenditures on services. But one lone Republican, standing against a house divided, threw in an argument that stung the most ardent secessionists. Said Stanley M. Isaacs, onetime...
Speaking in Los Angeles, senior Democratic Politico Harry Truman ventured a prediction: "I am telling you that the man, in my opinion, who will not be nominated for President on the Democratic ticket is one who will divide the country on race, religion or foreign policy." That prediction could be taken as a poke at such leading Democratic possibilities as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who has strongly liberal foreign policy notions. But Truman's reverse description of The Man Who was also carefully tailored to promote the Democrat that Truman...
Sponsored by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the statement supports Senate Resolution 96, introduced by Minnesota Democrat Hubert M. Humphrey. The proposed resolution affirms the Senate's backing of the current Geneva negotiations to end nuclear weapons tests...
...Straus report is bound to run into considerable opposition from the U.S. Treasury, which announced that it will fight any tax-easing rules that might further unbalance the budget. Yet Straus has strong support for his proposals both on Capitol Hill and at the White House. Louisiana Democrat Hale Boggs, author of a House bill to cut corporate taxes on foreign earnings from 52% to 38%, promised a "warm welcome" from Congress for the report. And from Administration officials came word that the White House will endorse much...