Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Insane Bickering." The Eisenhower plan got still another big boost, this one from Missouri's bulb-nosed Democratic Congressman Clarence Cannon, 79, chairman of the potent House Appropriations Committee, and a man who considers himself every bit as much a military expert as Carl Vinson. Rising on the House floor, Cannon delivered an old-fashioned stem-winder. "Who is better qualified." demanded Democrat Cannon, "in training, experience, and capacity than General Eisenhower? When it comes to military affairs involving the safety of the people and the survival of our form of government, he is a general, and I take...
...Muffled Roar. Two days of dogged Seabury questioning wore off Jimmy's gloss. Little by little his theatrics turned hollow, his cockiness wilted. Samuel Seabury sent his report to New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who called Democrat Walker on the carpet for personal questioning. But before Roosevelt had a chance to remove Walker from office, the mayor resigned and fled to Europe. Three years later he returned, played desperately at being a man about town, became a familiar and still-jaunty figure in nightclubs, theaters and bars before his death...
Released by New York City Comptroller Lawrence Gerosa last week with the approval, but obviously not the best wishes, of Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner: a report, described by Democrat Gerosa as dynamite, adding a new chapter to the city's corruption-afflicted history. Private contractors doing business with the city's Bureau of Real Estate, said Gerosa, have been overcharging for years. In twelve months alone. Gerosa's accountants discovered $200,000 in overcharges. Even before Gerosa released his report, seven top officials of the Real Estate Bureau had resigned, been dismissed or suspended. But the real...
...good deal of its charm lay in its restaurant, where the innkeeper's blonde, comely wife Cornelia Knutson cooked hearty food, waited cheerfully on tables and made the guests feel right at home. But no longer: in 1954, popular "Coya" Knutson, long active in Minnesota's Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party, ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, visited every farm in northwest Minnesota's Ninth District, won, and went off to Washington. With Coya gone, the hotel business fell off to the point where Andy Knutson finally closed the restaurant, took a part-time job with...
...membership in Ohio's first political family. But another part came as voter reaction against the unimpressive, do-nothing O'Neill administration. The results meant trouble for Republicans in November, when O'Neill must face the man he defeated in 1956: hard-running, fast-quipping Democrat Michael V. Di Salle, who easily won his party's nomination in an election where, for the first time since 1948, more Ohioans voted in the Democratic primary than in the Republican...