Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know. Edwards name-drops in the style she no doubt refined working as the society page editor fo the Chicago Trbiune for several years. Stories of working side by side with Ring Lardner and Charlie McCarthur are as interesting as the tales of life as a New Deal Democrat in Chicago society (one socialite slapped her for opposing Alf Landon). The experiences of later years take on more significance: discussing with Truman the idea of dismissing General McArthur, urging a reluctant Adlai Stevenson to seek the nomination...
Most worrisome of all, though, is Carter's continuing failure to set a strong direction on economic policy. "We're adrift," complains Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Banking Committee. "Carter will never win businessmen's confidence by saying that he wants to be loved. What businessmen respect, rightly, is mastery...
...effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right one. Says Representative David Obey, Wisconsin Democrat: "Members are just fed up with being equated with evil if they vote against Nader...
...million a year. A quarter of that loss occurs in New York: other hard-hit states include Texas ($45 million), Florida ($36 million) and Illinois ($25 million). Worse still, cigarette smuggling has become an important revenue producer for organized crime, ranking fourth behind gambling, prostitution and narcotics. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, who conducted Senate buttlegging hearings last month, says that the Mob's infiltration has led to "increasing violent crime: extortion and bribery, truck hijackings, armed robberies, serious assaults and even murder" of one smuggler by another...
...House bill now goes to the Senate, where Russell Long's Finance Committee is bogged down with the energy program and may not take up Social Security until next year. When it does, the committee will tack on an amendment by Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson that would ease the tax burden on workers by making their employers pay a bigger share of Social Security cost. Under Nelson's proposal, 1978 would be the last year in which both paid the same tax: 6.05% of the first $17,700 earned by the worker. The next year, employers would pay taxes...