Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurrah for Dick Nixon! I have wondered low long this Democrat hogwash about the 'little man" would go unchallenged. There is no such thing as a little American. Most of us are small businessmen or wage earners. We may not have as much money as Stevenson or Harriman, but we can bet our bottom dollar that they are not planning on dividing affairs with...
...Frank Needs Help." Next day, as the "Presidential Special" purred into Ohio, independent-minded Governor Frank J. Lausche, who hasn't done any all-out campaigning for any other Democrat in years, heaved himself aboard. Lausche, running unnerved, if not scared, for the Senate against Republican Incumbent George Bender, introduced Stevenson at each halt with gushing praise: "a great American," "a fearless man." Said a fellow Ohio Democrat of this unusual display of affection: "Frank needs help...
...district after district, rosy-cheeked freshmen are giving oldtimers the closest shaves of their lives. California's Eleventh District is a case in point. There, seven-term Republican Representative Leroy Johnson, 68, is hard pressed by 38-year-old Democratic State Assemblyman John J. McFall. Incum bent Johnson, World War I combat pilot, is running mostly on his House seniority and is reliving his long past ("I don't think they should have killed the League of Nations"). Challenger McFall is running on his own energies and ambitions, and, like many another Demo cratic House candidate...
Even in the Democratic South, some relatively young Republicans are giving Democratic incumbents a rough go. In Georgia's Fifth District, Atlanta Lawyer Randolph William Thrower, 43, former filling-station attendant, FBI agent and Marine captain, is close on the heels of arch-segregationist Representative James C. Davis, 61, who was Georgia's presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention, and has since held carefully stacked House subcommittee hearings on integration in the District of Columbia's schools (TIME, Oct.1). In Kentucky's Sixth District, Fayette County's Republican Sheriff Wallace ("Wah Wah") Jones...
Optimistic Democrat...