Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ever since the 1930s, Texas Democrat Wright Patman has been fulminating to bring the Federal Reserve System under tighter Government control. As it is, the Fed is a unique agency that, by design, is not subject to congressional appropriations or Government audit. It pays its own way largely out of interest earned on federal securities. The intention was, and is, to give the Fed a measure of independence from political control...
...state of the economy undermined the doves' cause, so did the familiarity of their complaints. Said California Democrat John Tunney: "It's become a stylized dance-almost like Kabuki." Eagleton ruefully admitted: "To many of our colleagues our arguments are old hat. There's a tendency to sit back and say, 'Well, here we go again.' The issue has lost...
POLITICS Lindsay goes West Like a man breaking in a pair of new shoes, Democrat-Come-Lately John Lindsay last week stepped gingerly into the national political arena. In his first major foray outside New York City since he switched parties, Lindsay visited Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles, sampling reaction and sending up trial balloons for a presidential campaign. The three-day junket removed any doubts that New York's mayor is aiming for the White House...
With the league's blessing on his move, Short pronounced himself in "a more favorable position than any major league operator that I know of." The position of baseball itself, however, was less than favorable. Democratic Congressman B.F. Sisk of California called it "an illustration of just what money grabbers these people can be." North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, who happens to be chairing a Senate hearing on the possible merger of the two professional basketball leagues, called for antitrust legislation that would prevent franchise owners from shifting their teams like "private playthings" from city to city with...
...diplomat, he served in many capitals before his final assignment as Ambassador to Britain (1957-62). An ardent democrat, he took advantage of his special status as Greece's only Nobel prizewinner to criticize the present Greek military regime publicly...