Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat Adlai Stevenson's brief trip through the Republican State Department was marked with good intentions on both sides. But the final outcome, whoever was at fault, could hardly contribute to the success of the NATO conference. No sooner had Stevenson issued his refusal than NATO observers in Europe, figuring he was trying to avoid again being associated with failure, began reading into it a sign that U.S. expectations for the Paris sessions were gloomy...
...upstate New York's Rochester Democrat & Chronicle in 1886 came an indignant letter from one of its newsboys. Protesting that he had been billed 6? too much for his papers, ten-year-old Frank Ernest Gannett demanded that the error be "rectified," added in his boyish scrawl: "I have always meet my bills...
What time and energy he had left--and he possessed considerable of the latter--was chiefly spent on the Cambridge-Boston social whirl. Roosevelt has often been characterized as a democrat during his college days, but he was one only in a gentlemanly sense. When compared to his Groton friends, he had some radical notions, but when compared to the average student, he was definitely aristocratic...
Emerging from the briefing, the Senators quickly put their distress on record. "A sad and shocking story," said Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington. Said New Hampshire Republican Styles Bridges: "Very unpleasant information...
...second wind. Then he could be off again on what, by the nature of the position he has staked out for himself, is bound sometimes to be a lonely way. Says Jack Kennedy: "An independent position is the only place for me. I'm a Northern Democrat who has some sense of restraint. I do pretty well in Massachusetts, and if that turns out to be typical of the nation -well, that will be fine...