Word: democratic
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Because Senate rules have always been carried over from session to session, the attack on Rule XXII will come on the first day, soon after Vice President Richard Nixon has gaveled the Senate to order. Then, according to present strategy, New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson will move that the Senate take up for consideration adoption of the rules under which it operates...
Homecoming. Returning to Germany to cover the Nürnberg trials as a newspaperman, moved on to Berlin as press attache of the Norwegian military mission. Surveying divided Berlin, he decided: "It is better to be the only democrat in Germany, where democracy is unknown, than one of many in Norway, where everybody understands it." The late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter took Brandt under his wing. Soon Brandt, regaining his German citizenship, became a member of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin...
...first post-election meeting with a top-ranking U.S. official, Mexico's President-elect Adolfo López Mateos invited a man he had never met. but had come to respect from a distance. Texas Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson, Senate majority leader. In a sun-drenched hotel cottage overlooking Acapulco Bay one morning this week, the Mexican and the Texan pulled up chairs to a breakfast of diced tropical fruit, eggs and coffee, and started talking...
...since the days of Guatemala's hapless Jacobo Arbenz. In taking Red help, Larrazábal insisted that he is not one of them. "I am not a Communist," he wrote in his acceptance letter. "On the contrary, I am a Catholic of unbreakable faith and a liberal democrat. My acceptance of Communist support does not signify any commitment, present or future." But by running up a big vote, the Reds hope that 1) lesser Communist candidates will ride into office on the red ballot, 2) Larrazábal will take Communists into his government. 3) he will...
Died. James Michael Curley, 83, onetime top Democrat in Massachusetts (Mayor of Boston, Governor, Congressman); following surgery for an internal obstruction; in Boston (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...