Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly seemed an even contest. There was Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, backed by a reputation for judicial probity and five fellow members of the Committee on Standards and Conduct, demanding the censure of Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd for perpetrating "a grievous wrong" against the entire Senate. And there was Dodd, his name sullied by 18 months of accusation and investigation, his own records and statements hurled as weapons against him, his only asset an instinct for political survival...
...four days on the Senate floor last week, the Connecticut Democrat fought doggedly and at times eloquently to prove "my honesty and my honor." In defense of what Dodd called "these marks of my manhood," he cried out to his peers and judges: "I am telling you the truth and concealing nothing! May the vengeance of God strike me if I am doing otherwise...
...friends, he knows that he is welcome-but his paper is so detested that it is not allowed over the doorstep. When St. Louis Public Relations Man Harry Wilson has an important news item for the press, he is torn between releasing it in time for the morning Globe-Democrat or the afternoon Post-Dispatch-either way, one of the papers is sure to squawk. When Globe Food Editor Marian O'Brien was writing a column recently, she got carried away by the combative sense of loyalty that seems to infect both dailies: "Our paper is so different from...
...C.D.U.'s autonomous Bavarian branch, is working smoothly in his post as Economics Minister with Finance Minister Karl Schiller, who is a Socialist. Kiesinger has correct, if cool, relations with Socialist Leader Willy Brandt, who is both Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister. As a whole, the eleven Christian Democrat ministers and nine Socialists have pretty well buried ideological differences in favor of a get-it-done approach...
What is more likely is some sort of federal action. Legislation now pending in Congress would safeguard policyholders against insurance company failures by providing federal backup auto insurance, much like the kind that protects bank depositors. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson promises that his Senate Commerce Committee will turn upcoming hearings on that legislation into a "root-and-branch investigation" of auto insurance in general...