Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confident of success. Louisiana's Passman, wearing an ice-cream white suit and eating an Eskimo Pie, lounged in the speaker's lobby before going to the floor to attack the Administration for its "propaganda" efforts on behalf of foreign aid. Opposed to Democrat Passman were such longtime Republican economy advocates as Minority Leader Joe Martin and New York's crusty old Representative John Taber. Cried Taber (whom Martin accurately described as "a man who is noted for his pinching of pennies") : "Why do we have the bill? It is because of our own military situation...
Bastardized. It was no use: a majority of Democrats defeated a majority of Republicans in beating down amendments seeking the restoration of foreign-aid funds. Indeed, such was the party turnabout that Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, a Democrat who remained loyal to foreign aid, berated his fellow Democrats for deserting their own program. ''This is your baby,'' thundered Flood. "Do you make this a bastard child...
Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's Democrat James Oliver Eastland. and the House Judiciary Committee, starring Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis E. ("Tad") Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. handed the President and the U.S. their answer. Its net: the U.S.'s prestige and the U.S.'s good faith could go hang...
...Lifelong Democrat Richardson gave only halfhearted support to such Hearst causes as I Am An American Day and the career of Marion Davies. But when Marion's brother-in-law was slugged one night, Cop Hater Richardson gleefully pounced on Hearst's notion that law-abiding Los Angeles was in the grip of a crime wave. As a result of City Editor Richardson's fearsome crime statistics (including the number of sidewalk spitters), the Los Angeles police department was doubled at a cost of millions a year. When Hearst talked of promoting him to managing editor, Richardson...
...Purple Heart veteran of the 35th Division in World War I. acutely unhappy. He called it an "aluminum monstrosity" that "will look like a row of polished tepees upon the side of the mountains," and proposed that the appropriation of $3.000,000 be sharply cut. New Jersey's Democrat Alfred D. Sieminski, a veteran of World War II and the Korean war, disagreed, crying that airmen "fight and die in aluminum planes. They can worship in aluminum if they can die in it, can they...