Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fear but Firmness. Christian Democrat de Gasperi understood the Red game. He also understood that democracy's first job had been to curb communism as a brass-knuckled force beyond the law. Despite Red violence in the farmhands' strike, he had established his government's authority...
Franco tried to show that he was really a good democrat. In buttering up the U.S. and Latin America, he turned angrily on his fellow Europeans. "The European nations are so incapable, so old and so divided, and their politics so full of Marxism, passions and rancors," he said, "that it is natural for us to look toward America. The sea is no longer a barrier but a road to be traveled over ... In foreign politics . . . what counts [is] mutual understanding . . . and clean friendship on all sides, and so I will say, in the words of the song...
They soon found out: he was a bald, ruddy lawyer, a wealthy Omaha Democrat-and the third man considered for the job. Harry Truman had wanted North Carolina's Jonathan Daniels, whose father had been Woodrow Wilson's Navy Secretary. Daniels didn't want the job. Democratic National Committee Chairman J. Howard McGrath had his own candidate -his friend, Judge Robert Quinn of Rhode Island. But Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson didn't want Quinn. In raising funds for Harry Truman's campaign, Johnson had got a good look at Frank Matthews and liked what...
Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, international pariah, seemed to be making progress toward getting back into the community of western nations. In the U.S. Senate last week, several members let it be known that they were ready to let bygones be bygones. Nevada's Democrat Pat McCarran started it by asking: Why should the U.S. not give Dictator Franco the same recognition it gives Dictator Stalin...
...Vote 'Ja,' indeed," scoffed Depper, a ruddy, sandy-haired carpenter. "They pick a slate of their stooges and then ask you to vote yes so they can claim the stooges are democratically elected. The last time we had the choice between 'Ja' and 'Nein,' it was forced upon us by another great democrat named Adolf Hitler. Do they think we are crazy...