Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ceiling on meat may keep the overall food-price index from rising as much as it otherwise would have for the next few months, but many politicians and labor leaders argue that more extensive controls will be necessary. Texas Democrat Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee, has offered a bill that would place a freeze on all retail prices and interest rates and roll back some rents as well. Even Republicans feel that further action should be taken on the Hill. Says Representative Garry Brown of Michigan: "I worry whether people will be content with just a ceiling...
...President's food-price announcement definitely did not quiet angry voices in Congress and the labor movement that are calling for far more drastic action. Said Representative Leonor K. Sullivan, a Missouri Democrat: "The President, after issuing dire warnings about the dangers of controlling meat prices, did it. How can we believe all these dire warnings about the dangers of controlling interest rates and other areas?" Like her, Congressmen and labor leaders have become convinced that the only way to stop a debilitating new round of inflation is for the President in effect to declare his entire Phase...
...Senate committee headed by Indiana Democrat Vance Hartke has been listening to other proposals, including outright nationalization of the Northeast lines, or nationalization of their rights of way and federal assumption of track maintenance in exchange for a toll charge paid by each railroad. Congress will have the final say, and if it cannot agree on some plan in about three months, the Government's hand may be forced by the federal court that is overseeing the Penn Central's operations in bankruptcy. Federal Judge John Fullam has given the railroad's trustees an ultimatum: devise...
TIME's columns were less partisan in the 1956 campaign and approximately neutral in 1960. Although Luce was on close terms with the son of his old friend Joe Kennedy, LIFE's editorial page gave a narrow endorsement to Nixon. When Luce suggested that, as a Democrat, J.F.K. would naturally adopt a liberal domestic policy, the elder Kennedy seemed surprised. "Harry," he erupted, "you know goddam well no son of mine could ever be a goddam liberal...
...most immediate problem is posed by the so-called Jusos, his party's youth wing, which is dominated by strident young Marxists. Two weeks ago, the Jusos endorsed a party platform that conflicts greatly with the pragmatic policies by which Brandt led the Social Democrats and their Free Democrat allies to triumph. Among the Jusos proposals: withdrawal of German financial support for U.S. troops in NATO. Brandt warned that if the Social Democrats adopt the Jusos platform he would quit. Said Brandt: "I could not take the responsibility for something that contradicts what I and others found broad electoral...