Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before he left office last week, Texas Governor Allan Shivers answered a question that had intrigued Texans since Election Day: Would he appoint a Republican to the Senate seat of incoming Governor Price Daniel? To the Senate, Shivers, an Eisenhower Democrat, sent canny William Arvis Blakley, 58, a Dallas tycoon who is also an Eisenhower Democrat. When newsmen sought out the appointee with an obvious question, shy Billy Blakley handed them an unequivocal answer: he was a lifelong Democrat, would vote that way in any attempt to reorganize the Senate...
Iowa. Herschel C. Loveless, 45, is Iowa's first Democratic governor in 18 years, and, true to his name, is virtually the only Democrat to win state office in 1956. In his inaugural address he hit the G.O.P.-controlled legislature with carefully drawn proposals, including a hint that was bound to stir up the session: he would like a re-study of dry-inclined Iowa's stringent liquor regulations (package sales only...
Massachusetts. Democrat Foster Furcolo shocked his tradition-bound state by banning the usual inauguration ball, holding not one but three swearing-in ceremonies, in which he eschewed customary platitudes and struck at Massachusetts' cash situation (needed to meet current costs: $25 million in new revenue). Further cause for alarm among the old regulars: plenty of Furcolo affability, no Furcolo promises...
Missouri. Democrat James T. Blair Jr., scion of a politically powerful Missouri family whose roots go back to the 1800s, launched himself into office with a full-dress parade, beefed up by nearly 600 newly created honorary "colonels," and with a two-part inaugural ball. Once in office Jim Blair declined to move from the family home into the 32-room executive mansion, called it a "drafty old barn that would be just like climbing cardiac hill four or five times a day. You could take a well man and put him in there, and he would be a sick...
...Changed Man. Surrendering office after the Christian Democratic landslide of 1953, Maier cultivated an icy enmity toward Adenauer, fought a bitter losing battle in the Bundestag at Bonn against NATO, rearmament and Adenauer's Saar policy. Two years ago he paid his first visit to the U.S. He returned to Stuttgart with the excited air of a Columbus. "The Americans really are democrats," he bubbled. He was through sniping at Adenauer. "Der Alte will do all right," he said. "But what will come after? We must call to our U.S. friends: 'Stop seeing in Konrad Adenauer the only...