Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after another, previously uncommitted members of the U.S. Senate fell into line for ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty-Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas, North Carolina Democrats Everett Jordan and Sam Ervin, Nevada Democrat Alan Bible, Iowa Republican Jack Miller, Colorado Republican Peter Dominick, Nebraska Republican Roman Hruska and South Carolina Democrat Olin Johnston...
Even when Barry Goldwater, one of the treaty's principal opponents, rose to speak, there were just three Senators present-all Democrats ready to pounce on him. Barry soon gave them a chance. Reiterating his stand that the U.S. ought to demand the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Cuba as its price for the treaty, he admitted that even if the Russians complied he would still vote against it. How come, asked one Democrat, when he had said only the week before that such a rider would make the treaty "perfectly acceptable even to its harshest critics"? Well, Barry...
...aircraft businessmen, had adopted a convention resolution criticizing the atomic test ban treaty as a danger to the U.S.? Kennedy did not agree with the organization's opinion, but "I think the Air Force Association is free to give its views." What about the decision of Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to oppose ratification of the treaty? Said Kennedy: "Well, I think he's highly respected, probably the most individually respected, perhaps, in the Senate. Therefore, what he says is going to have some influence...
There, the bill faces rough going. It will first be entrusted to Conservative Democrat Harry Byrd, chairman of the 17-member Finance Committee and a renowned foe of high Government spending. Byrd could easily stretch out hearings for two months, and further delays are possible if the Senate becomes embroiled in a civil rights filibuster. Finally, changes must be worked out in a House-Senate conference. Kennedy wants the first stage of the bill to go into effect by Jan. 1, 1964, assuring that the full impact of the tax cut would be felt in an election year...
...economics from the University of Wisconsin, he is an affable, pipe-smoking ex-college professor whose air of rumpled relaxation is deceiving. He is a driving administrator, has worked twelve to 16 hours a day himself, and expects his staff to do the same. He is a militant Democrat who drew constant fire from Wisconsin papers for his partisanship while tax commissioner-a nonelective office. But even state Republicans have grudging respect for him. Said one last week: "He's a surprisingly good administrator. And you just can't stay...