Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played the beadle. Much of the House's opposition to the Teacher Corps had centered on the old issue of federal control over local education. After the program was dropped from an omnibus school bill this year, it was sent to an education subcommittee headed by Oregon Democrat Edith Green, a former schoolteacher whose firm ideas about education often differ from those of the Johnson Administration...
...fundamental is amiss. New Jersey Representative William B. Widnall, ranking Republican member of the House Banking Committee, last month voiced fears that financial strains may inflict "permanent damage" on the housing industry and "lead to an intolerable housing shortage in the years ahead." Last week in the Senate, Alabama Democrat John Sparkman's housing subcommittee resumed what promises to be a lengthy search for cures. Most of the witnesses agreed that mortgages have become the chronic invalid of finance because of structural flaws in the mortgage market. "Under present regulations of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the growth...
...Benjamin Tappan, Ohio Democrat, who in 1844 smuggled to the old New York Evening Post a copy of the treaty of annexation with the Republic of Texas while the document was still considered confidential...
Since 1960, when he started sniping from the pages of his weekly Morrilton, Ark., Democrat at the political machine that rules Conway County, wiry Editor Gene Wirges has been beaten up, shot at and haled into court on ten different charges. Repeatedly, juries, which always seemed to include at least one or two friends of Sheriff Marlin Hawkins, undisputed boss of the local machine, found Wirges guilty. Repeatedly, higher courts overturned the verdicts...
...from Wellesley and an M.A. from Radcliffe, his father an A.B. from Amherst and a law degree from Harvard. Both were Phi Beta Kappa freethinkers-and poles apart in their thinking, especially in politics. Father was what an acquaintance calls "a crustacean McKinley Republican," Mother "a Cambridge liberal Democrat." They were divorced when Kingman was six and his mother married a Harvard music professor, Pianist-Composer Edward Ballantine. Their Cambridge home, with its two grand pianos, was a setting...