Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, hardworking, soft-selling Dillon earned a major share of the credit for steering reciprocal trade and foreign aid through a bullheadedly balky Congress. Perhaps the most popular of all-State Department officials on Capitol Hill, Dillon is especially friendly with Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, new chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...Chicago to sell Wurlitzer's jukeboxes, had become accustomed to reports of gang beatings and killings as "liabilities of the business." Wurlitzer officials denied all, and Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, who held the Wurlitzer sales-manager job before Hammergren, called the testimony "dirty pool" on Democrat Kennedy's part...
...factor in determining his Administration's appointments, he does little in practice to confirm this position. Last year, he allowed Meade Alcorn to blackball Henry Labouisse--the State Department's choice for deputy director of the International Cooperation Agency--on the ground that Labouisse registered as a Democrat in 1940. Again this month, when the Department recommended Labouisse for the directorship he was passed over in favor of James Riddleberger, happily a qualified diplomat but in addition apparently politically sound...
...government free of railroad domination and armed his reporters to cover the Ku Klux Klan. But the Bees hum every bit as independently now as then. C.K. leaped party lines to endorse Warren Harding in 1920 and old Bob La Follette in 1924. Although Eleanor has been more consistently Democratic at the national level, she makes endorsements on the state ticket with an impartial disregard for party. Last fall she supported Democrat Pat Brown for Governor, but the rest of the Bees' state ballot went to Republicans. Bee readers expect thorough news coverage as a matter of course...
Unlike her Republican parents, Alice, who traveled to Russia last year in the party with Adlai Stevenson, an old family friend, considers herself "a Stevensonian Democrat," but adds: "My political views are probably pretty immature." Certain that she wants to go into the newspaper business but uncertain whether she will settle in Newsday territory ("It's hard to pick out a man that lives on Long Island"), Alice knows what kind of paper she would like to run: "The New York Times with guts...