Word: democratic
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White, 44, sometime football hero and Rhodes scholar (see box). To help make up for his lack of judicial experience. White will bring to the court a high and well-honed intelligence. With a New Frontier Democrat replacing a conservative Republican, it was widely felt that the uneasy balance in the court would tilt decisively toward the liberal bloc-but that was an overly simple interpretation. White is a New Frontier pragmatist. As a former Deputy Attorney General, he will probably tend to side with the Frankfurter bloc in internal security cases, just as Whittaker did. And where White does...
...lumberman, was town mayor-and a devoted Republican. Byron was valedictorian of his five-member high school class, went to the University of Colorado in nearby Boulder, where he waited table at the Phi Gamma Delta house, slung hash in a sorority, made Phi Beta Kappa-and became a Democrat. These were Depression years, and White was impressed by Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. "It seemed to me," he recalls, "that the Democrats had the more forward-looking programs." Hall of Fame. As a 6 ft. 2 in., 190-lb. halfback, White was a star passer, punter...
...never had such pressure on a bill," grumbled a veteran Democratic Congress man. "You've seen nothing," replied Ar kansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Commit tee. "I've had more pressure on this bill than you've had in your whole 20 years in Congress." The bill: President Kennedy's tax-revision plan. Source of the pressure: Kennedy...
...noble try, but it did not quite come off. "We can't afford very many of these victories," said a Democrat in the Speaker's lobby. "The Admiral is leading a charge to the rear," said a Republican. When Vinson was done explaining, the diluted RS-70 bill was approved by a vote...
There's some nonsense in liberalism. It's often bigoted, narrow-minded. I'm a sort of tough Democrat." Old Foxy Grandpa. Frost has always been one of the hardiest barnstormers in the academic world, but his pace has quickened to a sprint since the inauguration. He has taped radio interviews and allowed himself to be filmed for a movie documentary. He went to Israel for ten days as the guest of Hebrew University...