Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.O.P. will go all the way for a moderately tough Administration labor bill that would ban secondary boycotts and blackmail picketing. In the Senate Labor Committee, and then, if necessary, on the floor, Senate Republicans will attempt to substitute the Administration package for a milder bill introduced by Massachusetts Democrat Jack Kennedy. Since the House Labor Committee is distinctly unfriendly to Ike's bill, Minority Leader Charles Halleck will wait, make his fight on the House floor. Halleck estimates he has votes enough there "to write a good bill...
...When headlines blossomed with the story that Freshman Congressman Steven V. Carter's public relations assistant was1) his son, 2) 19 years old, 3) getting paid $11,872.26 a year, 4) splicing public relations into a pre-law course at George Washington University (TIME, March 2), Democrat Carter was unconcerned. Said he: "The folks back home in Iowa will understand." Last week enough mail had flooded Carter's Washington office to make it clear that folks back home did not understand at all. As a consequence, Carter made his maiden House speech, apologized if he had cast reflections...
From 1954 through 1958, Yankus kept on planting 25 to 35 acres more than his ten-acre allotment. Each year he was fined; each year the Government piled on another penalty, until the total got to $4,562. "I decided to quit," he told a Democrat-controlled House agriculture committee last week, "when it became obvious the fight no longer was with the United States Government but with the people who want something for nothing -the 'gimmes...
Would Dr. Erhard, asked Adenauer, accept the decision of 19 Christian Democrat leaders assembled at that moment in his office, and become their candidate for President of the republic? Replied Erhard: "I just had a beating in the sauna, and I don't want to get another in the voting. Will the party stand solidly behind me?" Ja, rasped the old Chancellor, you can count on full support. Helplessly aware that he might be setting himself up for the beating of his life, Erhard accepted "in principle"-so long as he would have a word to say in naming...
...Louis morning Globe-Democrat has been wavering along between the red and the black ever since Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse added it to his chain in 1955 for $6,250,000. Up against the city's other -and dominant-newspaper, the profitable, Democratic evening Post-Dispatch, the Republican Globe managed to gain some ground (the Globe's circulation of 332,823 is up 40,000 from 1955; the Post's 380,495 is down 7,000), but it never could spin into the solid black. Last week, while his paper was shut down by an American Newspaper...