Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, for reasons unexplained, had billed this part of his tour "nonpolitical." He neither replied to Massachusetts Democrat Jack Kennedy's needling of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson (from the same platform just an hour before), nor appealed for votes for Republican Congressmen, nor even said a ringing word on behalf of Iowa's G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate William G. Murray, Iowa State University agriculture-economics professor, who stands an outside chance against lackluster Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless. Instead, Ike threw in a statement from hastily jotted notes on foreign policy: "You cannot bargain or negotiate in a world...
Paul M. Butler, National Chairman in a Chicago debate with his G.O.P. opposite number, Meade Alcorn, who forced Northern Democrat Butler to talk about Southern Democrat Orval Faubus of Arkansas, said: "We will not tolerate that kind of an un-American attitude in a party that represents the American people...
...Still agile later that same day, Truman kidnaped two historical figures to add to the 13 Democratic Presidents whose pictures he hung at a new party clubroom: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), over the protest of Adams' great-great-grandson that his forebear was a Republican precursor, and Andrew Johnson (1808-75), who was a War Democrat when he became Abraham Lincoln's Vice President. Discoursing further on his reading of history, Harry scaled down every U.S. schoolboy's image of the man who said, "Give me liberty or give me death!": "There...
Kennedy, a Democrat, is campaigning for his second term in the Senate...
...Democrat, Too. The fast-stepping financing required by such production costs is second nature to Stevens, who quit the University of Michigan as a sophomore when his family was short of cash, seven years later boasted a $50,000 bank account and a $25,000-a-year income from Detroit real estate deals. After a wartime hitch in the Navy, merely making money was not enough for Stevens, and he drifted into Detroit's Drama Guild. Before long, he bought his way onto Broadway, joined the board of ANTA, then became a member of the Playwrights' Company...