Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard to measure, concentrated effort by a few dozen workers in a local election can easily prove the difference between victory and defeat. The Liberal Union has worked upon this theory, and aided the election in the fall of 1954 of Sumner Kaplan to the State Legislature, the first Democrat ever elected in Brookline...
...present I am an Eisenhower Republican. However, I think it would be easy to persuade me to become a Frank Lausche Democrat...
Elder Politician. The occasion really belonged to the small man with the big grin who waved to a friend here and chuckled at another there. Harry Truman was enjoying the role of "Mr. Democrat," the party's elder politician. When the former President of the U.S. rose to speak, shouts of "Come on, Harry" popped out around the hall. He came on. "Whether our candidate is here tonight or not," he said, "I can tell you this: we are going to give the American people a chance to vote for a President-and not a regency or a part...
...While Democrat Averell Harriman told the U.S. about the good government he has brought to New York, his Republican foes fumed in frustration. They insistently pointed out that Governor Harriman drastically underestimated state revenue for 1955, and loaded the taxpayers with an 11% increase in state income taxes to cover a budget based on his error. But there was remarkably little public reaction. One reason: a point about a state budget often gets lost in a maze of statistics, analyses and charts. Last week, however, Oswald D. (for David) Heck, speaker of the New York state assembly, found...
...Walter Mahoney issued a statement that said, in part: "If, as Governor Harriman seems to infer, Republican clairvoyance was required last year to determine that he did not need the $127 million tax increase which he demanded, our forecast has proven far more accurate than the divinations of the Democrat haruspex, which also failed to foresee an admitted $80 million surplus...