Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life of the Party. In Indianapolis, the Democratic sheriff's deputies were especially pleased when Democrat Mrs. Opal Kremer took over as county recorder, because her Republican predecessor had kept the door of the toilet locked, refusing to share it with Democrats...
...made-in-Moscow headlines, the U.S., across lunch counters, through stern editorials and in Washington debate, stirred with a sober realization that the nation faces a possibility of war over Berlin. "The countdown has begun," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, as he called for national unity. Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, touching off a notable Senate debate (see The Congress), warned that the U.S. may be facing "the supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned: "We have seen so many crises...
Without advance fanfare, and with almost no audience, the U.S. Senate sparked last week to one of the most important debates on U.S. foreign policy of the 1950s. Subject at issue: the crisis of Berlin. Key debater: Connecticut's white-maned Senator Thomas John Dodd, 51, freshman Democrat making his maiden speech. Dodd aimed eloquent oratorical guns at critics who "attack our policy as too rigid and inflexible," and those who sneer at a U.S. foreign policy based on moral principles. Before he had taken his seat, he had crossed swords with such eminent senior Democratic defenders of flexibility...
...Freshman Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia drew on George Washington, the Psalms and Pericles to back up Dodd: "I say that nothing can be politically right if it is morally wrong. If there must be a showdown, it should be in our time, and not in the time of our children...
...chairman of Ways and Means when the Republicans took over in 1953. Reed made headlines when he promptly opposed the Eisenhower Administration's plan for a six-months' extension of excess profits taxes. In a rare move, House Republican leadership bypassed Reed's committee. Commented one Democrat: "Mr. Reed has been in the minority so long that bucking the White House is an unbreakable habit with...