Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration sent up to the Hill a host of persuasive witnesses, including, besides Gordon, Walter W. Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. But committee members seemed far from persuaded. Even liberal Democrats pronounced themselves disturbed about that dizzying $11.9 billion deficit in the President's budget for fiscal 1964 (beginning next July). Heller, for one, argued that the New Frontier's program would lay open to the U.S. "one of the most exciting expansionary periods in our economic history...
...have," said Kennedy, only one Soviet ship that might have carried military cargo has arrived in Cuba since then, and "there is no evidence that this ship carried any offensive weapons." But after a briefing by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and CIA Chief John A. McCone, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis announced that his Senate Preparedness Subcommittee will investigate the "buildup of military might in Cuba...
Bypassing the Court. Faced with dwindling federal revenues because of a recession, Grover Cleveland tried to revive the income tax in 1894. Rich New York Socialite Ward McAllister threatened to leave the country if the tax was enacted. Thundered Democrat William Jennings Bryan: "If 'some of our best people' prefer to leave the country rather than pay a tax of 2%, God pity the worst!" The bill passed-but the Supreme Court, by a vote of five to four, declared it unconstitutional...
...First Congressional District sweeps 300 miles up the rocky California coastline, from the San Francisco suburbs in Marin County past the vineyards of Sonoma and Napa counties to the rugged timberlands near the Oregon border. The First customarily sent a conservative to Congress until 1958, when liberal Democrat Clem Miller won the seat on his second try. Youthful and highly articulate. Miller was re-elected in 1960. He seemed a sure winner for 1962, so the Democratic-controlled state legislature altered his district only slightly in the gerrymandering that followed the 1960 census...
Youthfully quickstepping out of a regional conference in Boston were six New England Governors, two Republicans and four Democrats, averaging only 42⅓ years in age. There was Rhode Island Republican John H. Chafee, 40, New Hampshire Democrat John W. King, 44, Maine Republican John H. Reed, 42, Vermont Democrat Philip H. Hoff, 38, Connecticut Democrat John Dempsey, 48, and Massachusetts Democrat Endicott Peabody, 42. All but Reed and Dempsey are newcomers elected last fall (Hoff became Vermont's first Democratic Governor in 109 years). With a vigah befitting their years, the six agreed to ask their legislatures...