Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputnik and its effect on public opinion have transformed the thinking of the Democrat Congressmen" who only last year voted to cut budget requests for national defense...
...breathless week, Ellender was only a neolithic holdout. Fired by Texan Johnson as he rocketed to stake a claim in space for the U.S. Congress and its Democratic majority, the members focused on space with the sense of urgency usually reserved for crop supports and rivers and harbors bills. Example: Johnson and a fellow Democrat, New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, were scanning the House bill that would give Defense Secretary McElroy authority for his Advanced Research Projects Agency. They decided that McElroy's franchise would be too broad. At Johnson's urging, Senate conferees, meeting with...
...Medal of Honor), announced last September that he was retiring from politics, looked toward a comfortable job in private industry next January. Last week Joe Foss changed his mind, opened a campaign for the First District congressional seat held by George McGovern, South Dakota's first Democratic Congressman in 18 years. Reason: Foss was persuaded to run by 50 leading South Dakota Republicans headed by National Committeeman Axel Beck, who argued that Foss was the only Republican with a chance of beating Democrat McGovern and of staving off a statewide Democratic landslide in once religiously Republican South Dakota...
Such is the changed political climate of South Dakota that even Joe Foss enters the race as an underdog to a Democrat. George McGovern, 35, himself a World War II B-24 pilot with a Distinguished Flying Cross, is a hard worker and a skilled orator, has since his election in 1956 entrenched his position. As governor, Joe Foss, blamed for rising real estate taxes, won 1956 re-election by only 25,000 votes -and the First District does not include his areas of greatest strength. But Foss's greatest handicap this year is the same that got George...
Dore Schary, 53, oldtime writer, big-wheel cinemagnate and devout Democrat, has long mingled his art with politics. In 1956, after a slump at the box office and a series of money-losing movies (The Swan, Somebody Up There Likes Me), he was fired as production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, suspected that the firing was due in part to his support of Adlai Stevenson. Schary had stumped for Stevenson in the 1952 and 1956 campaigns, also produced the doctrinaire film, Pursuit of Happiness, for the Democratic National Committee...