Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor. Long the handmaiden of the Democratic Party, organized labor has suffered its worst shame in decades at the hands of the Senate's McClellan laborrackets investigating committee. The pitiless expose of labor corruption by Democrat John McClellan has revolted the nation and emboldened Republicans to make labor reform a campaign issue. Last week the Denver County Republican leaders publicly endorsed a right-to-work constitutional amendment-a maneuver calculated to lure some of the state's 200,000 independent voters. Congressional failure to pass the Kennedy-Ives labor-reform bill will be laid essentially to the Democrats...
MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRAT JOHN KENNEDY has long counted on the California presidential primary as his best chance to show dramatic vote-getting talents. But a Brown victory would shut Kennedy completely out of California. If Brown wins, he will almost automatically become a favorite son candidate for President-and a genuine hot prospect for the Democratic nomination for Vice President. And although both he and Kennedy are Roman Catholics, that very fact would keep them from ever being on the same ticket...
...moves without holding a Pat hand. Running for one of the nation's biggest administrative jobs, he is a second-rate administrator with a notorious inability to make decisions. "He has limitless energy in meeting people but not the energy to cope with issues," says a top California Democrat. Adds a close friend lamely: "While he may be a guy who is not too aggressive administratively, he frankly recognizes deficiencies where they appear. He is honest about them. It's a real asset...
...being a leader-and a political career was inevitable. He ran as a Republican for assemblyman in 1928, but the G.O.P. competition was stiff in San Francisco, and Pat lost in the party primary. When he next ran for public office-in New Deal 1939-he was a Democrat. "I've never regretted the change," he tells his friends. "I'm not entirely satisfied with everything, but I have considerable more intellectual solace as a Democrat than I had as a Republican...
...Democrat Brown became a popular luncheon speaker on the subject. "Why I Left the Republican Party," made hundreds of new friends, joined every organization he could find (including the National Lawyers Guild, which he joined and quit in the 1930s, rejoined and quit again in the 1940s, when he finally discovered that it toed the Communist line. He ran for San Francisco County district attorney in 1939, lost, went out and made more friends, joined more clubs, ran again in 1943-and was elected...