Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must to almost all congressional investigations, partisan politics last week burst into the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee's probe of Government war-emergency stockpiling. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington, the subcommittee chairman, expansively told a news conference that his three months of hearings had disclosed that "the taxpayers stand to lose over $1 billion as a result of these stockpile operations-far greater than any I have seen in the Billie Sol Estes case...
...news conference, Democrat Symington indicated he had far bigger game in sight. He said he might quiz Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary George Humphrey about limited-risk contracts that the Truman Administration signed, just four days before it went out of office, with Hanna Nickel Smelting Co. Humphrey headed the nickel company's parent firm, M.A. Hanna Co., before he joined the Government, and he retained his Hanna stock while Treasury Secretary. All of these facts had been disclosed long ago, but Symington said he wanted to know if Humphrey's companies made unjustified profits...
Apparently the less tarnished, Connally emerged the winner. His political mentor, Lyndon Johnson, thus tightened his grip on the Texas Democratic organization. In November Connally will learn just how much the fratricidal name calling has hurt him: he will face conservative Republican Jack Cox, 40, a onetime Democrat who switched to the G.O.P. and is trying to persuade Texas to do the same...
...faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics." Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst was off on one of the orations that were the delight of the Senate from...
...government proposed boosting the tax on the awnings of sidewalk cafés from 60∧ a square yard to $25, café owners threatened to strike, coffee lovers raised a howl, and the Confederation of Commerce and Tourism dispatched an official delegation to the Finance Minister, a Christian Democrat. Result: the tax on shade was raised to only...