Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skillfully did Lyndon Johnson handle his fight for his own version of Rule XXII that the final 72-22 vote left only the extreme diehards of both the liberal and Southern sides in opposition. Thus such liberals as New York Republican Jacob Javits arid Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas found themselves isolated with such bitter-end Southerners as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Mississippi's James Eastland...
...Even monkeys fall from trees," runs an old Japanese proverb. Last week the wiliest arborealist in the Japanese political jungle crashed ingloriously to earth. He was Liberal-Democrat Party Board Chairman Ichiro Kono, the beady-eyed, roly-poly little man who for a decade has personified in his countrymen's minds the guile of political party intrigue...
...other party aides. "Responsibility for the confusion in the Diet rests on these three," he blandly announced. "Therefore, I have no intention of placing them in a responsible position again." If he can get away with these shifts, and get re-elected as party president at the forthcoming Liberal-Democrat meeting, Kishi presumably can count on being Premier for another two years...
Doing his bit to whoop the boys up for the annual damn-the-Democrats exercises at Lincoln's Birthday fund-raising ceremonies. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn polled G.O.P. Senators on how many philippics they could unload at party rallies this year, learned to his mild horror that a bipartisan clerk had mailed one query astray. Bemused recipient of the inadvertent, fire-eating "Dear Frank" appeal: Utah's new Democrat Frank E. Moss...
...Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson heads into the opening of the 86th Congress, he has been tabbed by the pundits as a "moderate," whose principal job it will be to rein in the Senate's wild-eyed Democratic "liberals." Such political labels don't fit, says Johnson in the current University of Texas Texas Quarterly: "God made no man so simple or his life so sterile that such experience can be summarized in an adjective ... I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. I am also a liberal...