Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat" has meant to me race baiting, fiscal irresponsibility and obsequious relationships with custodians of organized-labor votes. Senator Dodd of Connecticut has shown me that "Democrat" can also mean statesmanship...
...President Eisenhower's interest was a recent Federal Communications Commission decision handed down after a Lar Daly complaint. Running for Chicago mayor, as usual, in this year's primary campaign, Splinter Candidate Daly howled that the TV stations had slighted him in favor of the other candidates-Democrat Incumbent Richard J. Daley and Republican Timothy P. Sheehan. The FCC agreed, ruled that Daly had time coming. Rather than contest the decision, most stations grudgingly put Lar ("America First") Daly (for legalized gambling, against public schools) on the air. WBBM-TV, the CBS station in Chicago, was one which...
...course, such a busy group needs a means of "internal communication," and the mimeographed Democratic Review informs members in witty fashion of the goings-on. Of the annual Christmas party, it said in the lead article: "Tradition shall mix with the liberal spirit, carols with caucuses, and good fellowship preside over all." In addition, the club helps publish the Democrat, "an intelligence service for the people...
...sixth straight term as Michigan's Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams is awash up to his green bow tie in money troubles. Last week he sputtered that the Republican majority in the Michigan senate had "doomed the state to a financial disaster" by rejecting his plea for a $50 million bond issue to meet state payrolls and other pressing expenses...
Bronx Cheer. Another Congressman, New York Democrat Charles A. Buckley (elected in 1934), turned up on the lengthening list of lawmakers who spend federal staff allowances with cheery abandon. Reported Scripps-Howard Newshawk Vance Trimble (TIME, March 16): The Bronx's Buckley pays $38,497 a year to eight political followers in New York City who work part time on Buckley business, mostly in their own homes. Buckley's Washington office is staffed by only two people, both paid not out of his staff allowance, but from funds of the House Public Works Committee, of which...