Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other corner: Multimillionaire Contender William A. Blakley. 59 ("I want to be yawl's Senatuh''). anointed heir to the conservative Democrat legions of exiled ex-Governor Allan Shivers. Blakley was appointed by Shivers to warm the senatorial seat between Daniel's departure and the special election that put Yarborough in. After that 103-day stint he did not stand for election-probably on Shivers' orders. Probably at Shivers' request -and surrounded by ex-Shivers speechmakers and advisers-he is running...
Veins bulging along his left temple, the President poured down his wrath upon the Democrat-dominated House Appropriations Committee, which had sliced $872 million out of the Administration's $3.9 billion foreign aid appropriation request. Soothingly the committee's ranking Republican, New York's John Taber, reported that committee Republicans had strongly supported Ike in the teeth of Democratic opposition. "But what happened is no good," snapped Eisenhower. "This thing is vital to our country's interest...
Horrendous Buckshot. Next day in the House, the Democratic leaders, with many a soaring declaration for foreign aid already on the record, stood aside and let the appropriations subcommittee chairman, Louisiana's Otto Ernest Passman, carry the day for the funds cut on the House floor. As he engineered the cuts, Passman nervously crossed and recrossed his long legs, danced around in his sporty black and white Oxfords, demanded recognition by snapping his fingers into the microphone, once blew a rapturous kiss to a Northern Democrat who paid him a compliment on the thoroughness of his committee work...
...Sant'Angelo. Although Rome's Ministry of Public Works gave its approval and the Baptists started to build, the local mayor issued a firm no. Contrary to the standard plot rules of Italian church-state village dramas, Mayor Antonio Baldassarra was not a Communist, but a Christian Democrat who was outraged by the prospect of a Protestant church in Sant'Angelo in Villa...
...Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1953, lost to Democrat Robert Meyner...