Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though I was born and raised a Democrat, Dick Nixon has my vote in the coming election. Any man who can spread so much good will with no beat-around-the-bush stuff is worthy of a good Democratic vote...
Reversing the Trend. Fortnight ago, surveying his troops before the battle, G.O.P. Leader Charles Halleck knew he was in trouble in his effort to push across the Landrum-Griffin bill. Although his friend and coalition ally, Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, assured him that Southern conservatives were lined up solidly behind the bill, Halleck found that some 20 of his own Republicans, all from industrial areas, were prepared to go over the hill, vote for one of the weaker bills. Moreover, the trend was against Halleck: his rasping, hard-driving methods had caused resentment among the G.O.P. rank and file...
Jimmy Hoffa himself came through swimmingly. At a dinner for his 400 lobbyists, he promised to "elect" a Congress that would dance to Teamster pipes. When he heard this, Missouri's Democrat Clarence Cannon, who had pledged his vote to Sam Rayburn, announced that he would have to vote for Landrum-Griffin...
Reversing the Strategy. Bolling's plan was witlessly blown by a man who had been forewarned: ultra-liberal California Democrat James Roosevelt. While Bolling & Co. sat silent and shocked, Jimmy Roosevelt arose on the House floor and blurted the red word that Bolling had hoped to spring at the very last minute. Jimmy had found a "silver lining" in the Landrum-Griffin bill. And he told the Southerners just where to find the actual civil-rights sleeper, hidden in Section 609. The Southerners panicked just as Dick Bolling had predicted, but it was still 24 hours before the final...
Part of the book's fascination lies in a game of who's who that readers will be tempted to play. The parties are never actually labeled, but indications are that the President is a Democrat; with his infectious laugh, his habit of tossing his head and his cynical charm, he has more than a few traits of F.D.R. Leffingwell, Cooley and Anderson are blurred, composite pictures. But Senator Orrin Knox, who has been defeated twice for the presidential nomination because of his brusque honesty, owes a great deal of his fictional likeness to that of Bob Taft...