Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Star witness before Democrat Johnson's committee was Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, who brought along a signed statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to prove that they "consider" the Defense Department's $40.9 billion 1960 budget "adequate to provide for the essential programs," although they have doubts whether the budget provides enough money for all the programs included in it. One by one, the service chiefs-Air Force's General Thomas White. Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke. Army's General Maxwell Taylor and Marine Corps' General Randolph Pate-backed up the statement...
Lettuce Sandwich. Party labels are no guideposts to the spenders. In South Dakota, Ralph Herseth, first Democratic governor in 22 years, quickly tacked another third to the budget increase suggested by outgoing Joe Foss. Contrariwise, Kansas Democrat George Docking has been the only Governor to compile a budget lower than last year's. And New York's big-budget Republican Rockefeller (see New York) is sandwiched between Democratic Liberals Robert Meyner of New Jersey and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, both with modest proposals and no tax increases...
...consideration, e.g., by setting the time limits on debate, by deciding whether amendments may be made from the floor. Such a power position is made to order for lanky (6 ft. 160 lbs.), courtly Howard Smith, possessor of the bushiest eyebrows south of John L. Lewis. A Byrd organization Democrat, he is the recognized leader of House Southern conservatives, uses his committee to fight off civil rights legislation. ("I use every weapon I've got," he says. "That's why I'm here.") Since 1931 Judge Smith (he was a state circuit judge) has represented Virginia's Eighth Congressional District...
...reason: strong opposition. "We are being outvoted, outtalked, outspent and outworked by an alert, disciplined, politically astute opposition." Another reason, which rang jarringly in conservative ears: "We must get rid of the right-to-work tag pinned on our coattails." Still another: the Democrat-labor alliance. "Organized labor was able to put in one state [Maine] in behalf of opposition candidates more field men than the Republican Party had available nationally...
...Take Credit." ODCM's decision also raised complaints in Congress. Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss asked the White House why the Tennessee Valley Authority last November awarded a $2,637,000 contract for electric generators to Switzerland's Brown Boveri instead of to the low domestic bidder, suburban Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Louisiana Democrat T. Hale Boggs, chairman of the House reciprocal-trade-agreements subcommittee, promised a thorough investigation of the B.L.H. award. Asked Boggs: "Does this mean that we invoke the national-defense clause when an industry at home is having some...