Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...department at Cabinet level and a sweeping antirecession program-primarily to create campaign issues. To such men, Kennedy seems to be less interested in a bill's substance than in a label that appeals to voting blocs, such as the aged on medical care. More than one loyal Democrat is complaining that in his fascination for political maneuvering, Kennedy is neglecting the fundamental chore of giving active leadership to the Democrats on the hill. Even House Speaker John McCormack has repeatedly had to ask the President for guidance on just what he really wanted-or would settle...
Apart from legislative issues, there was a vaguely defined feeling of discontent with the President that one loyal leading House Democrat described as "the malaise." Its cause: a suspicion that the President is more involved in preparing to win big himself in 1964 than he is with the immediate problems of Democrats who will run in 1962. In fact, many Democrats feel that with Brother Ted's announcement for the Senate, the so-called Kennedy dynasty is looming too large for comfort, and is bound to give the Republicans ammunition...
...York's Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 51, son of a German immigrant who became a U.S. Senator, rules over 250,000 city employees and nearly 8,000,000 citizens with a mixture of detachment and passionate involvement. Democrat Bob Wagner has won three terms as mayor under two hats: one of a Tammany Hall choice and supporter, the other of a reformer fighting the machine. Wagner has a talent for attracting controversies, but he is fortunate in his enemies; they always manage to make him look better with their own gaffes. Though his administration has been pockmarked by scandal, Wagner...
...rare departure from conventional political behavior, California's frisky Dalip Singh Sound, 62, turned sheepish (and turtle) over an enlargement of the federal payroll in his district. The occasion, in lamentation for which the India-born Democrat sportingly submitted to an initial symbolic shakedown: a beefing-up of the Internal Revenue Service staff in the city of Riverside...
Columnist Walter Lippmann, who has descended from his oracular heights to become a plain Kennedy Democrat, had the first word. "It now appears," he wrote last week of an Administration plan to buy $100 million worth of United Nations bonds, "that it may be defeated by a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats." The danger: a counterproposal, by U.S. Senators George D. Aiken of Vermont and Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa, both Republicans, that the U.S. Government lend the U.N. the money instead. Charged Lippmann hotly: This "confused raid on the bond plan" was caused by "crude partisanship . . . personal disgruntlement...