Word: democratic
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Quemoy and Matsu. "What is at stake is not just Quemoy and Matsu, and not just Formosa, but the whole free world position in Asia. A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy." When Democrat Adlai Stevenson suggested a Formosa plebiscite to see whether Chiang Kai-shek should stay, Nixon shot back a suggestion for a plebiscite in Communist China to see whether the Reds should stay...
Saltonstall's opponent, Lawrence Curtis, is now serving his third term in office. The 10th District, created in 1941, has never elected a Democrat...
Karam gave an order: "Get 'em over in front of the school." On hand were the United Press International's Charlie McCarty (TIME, Sept. 29), who had been tipped off about the story, and a photographer from the Faubus-fawning Arkansas Democrat. The two photographers needed only five minutes to get their pictures of the Negroes and their sign pleading for equality. "Let's get the hell out of here," barked Karam, and the Negroes hurried...
...Democrat had the picture on the streets for voters to see as they headed for the polls. The Associated Press (which used the Democrat's shot) and the U.P.I, both moved the picture without a hint that it was staged. Unwarned, the New York Sunday News printed U.P.I.'s picture with a caption saluting the "eloquent look in the eyes" of the woman and boy. The moderate Arkansas Gazette later disclosed that the picture was staged, but by then the voting was over, and the segregationists had won (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Breckinridge Long, 77, Missouri-born lawyer, horse breeder, bon vivant, art collector, moderately pro-Mussolini U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1933-36), twice (1917-20, 1940-44) Assistant Secretary of State, lifelong Wilsonian, internationalist Democrat who was among the leaders of the Roosevelt-for-President forces at the 1932 Chicago convention; after long illness; at his sumptuous country home, Montpelier Manor, near Laurel...