Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, New York Republican Kenneth Keating and Maryland Republican John M. Butler called upon Congress to pass "explicit authorization" for the Defense Department to use confidential information...
...flurry of manifestoes and speeches, the party's liberals roared out their annoyance at Compromiser Johnson's policy of trimming Democratic plans to fit political facts of life-such as Dwight Eisenhower's popularity, his veto weapon, and the appeal of his balanced-budget goal to the U.S.'s current conservative temper. Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph S. Clark, who sounded a call for a lot of bold new spending programs after the Democratic victory last November, stood up in the Senate and denounced the Johnson approach as an effort to "block that veto" by turning out "legislation...
...single House seat, Hawaii's fast-rising Democrat Dan Inouye, 34, who lost his right arm in action with the famous Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II, resoundingly beat Mrs. Patsy Takemoto Mink, 31. He will run against Republican Charles H. Silva, 55, Hawaii's Territorial Director of Institutions...
...progress of science in the U.S. being held up by unnecessary secrecy? To find out, Missouri Democrat Thomas C. Hennings Jr., chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, wrote to all living U.S. scientists who have won Nobel Prizes. Last week Senator Hennings released replies from three chemists, six physicists, eight men in medicine or physiology. Their consensus...
Rising to his feet in the Senate last week, Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas took out after the Pentagon and its defense contractors. Said Douglas: "The system of defense procurement has led to great abuse. And when companies hire former officers to negotiate with their former fellow officers, the abuses are magnified." With that, Douglas released figures showing that 88 of the nation's 100 top contractors employed no fewer than 721 ex-officers with the rank of colonel and up. Douglas said darkly that there is grave suspicion that many of these men were hired as influence peddlers...