Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly eight weeks, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills and his House Ways and Means Committee have listened to testimony about President Kennedy's tax program. With the hearings due to end this week, the committee is about to get down to the actual work of drawing up a tax bill...
After 4½ months of counts and recounts, a panel of three district court judges last week picked a winner in the race for Minnesota's governorship. Their decision: Democrat Karl Rolvaag over incumbent Elmer L. Andersen by a bare 91 votes out of 1,239,593 cast-Republican Andersen decided against a last-ditch appeal to the state Supreme Court, thereby ending one of the longest delays in U.S. history in deciding a gubernatorial contest...
...shabby George Washington Inn, where California Democrat John Moss's House Information subcommittee began looking into the Kennedy Administration's news policy last week, the talk kept coming back to the same subject: the stumbling tongue of Pentagon Press Secretary Arthur Sylvester. And Sylvester was a sitting duck for the eleven publishers, broadcasters and reporters who turned up to testify. What riled the witnesses particularly was Sylvester's statement about last October's Cuba crisis that the Government has the "right, if necessary, to lie to save itself when it's going up into...
...throne of the Habsburgs without a male heir; in Hütteldorf, Austria. Only five when her father died, she grew up to marry Prince Otto zu Windisch-Graetz but grew steadily disenchanted with her royal life, divorced him after 23 years to drift into socialism, marry Austrian Social Democrat Leopold Petznek and become known as "the Red Princess...
...Republican-type Republican . . . The net result of this urge to be labeled frequently is that our party members end up in neatly tagged compartments, while the opposition party ends up in public office. The only real gainer is a peculiar political species known as a Democrat Democrat...