Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Rayburn's warning also lay a political ploy, aimed at shifting the responsibility for diluting the reciprocal trade bill from the Democratic Congress to the Republican Administration. Rayburn's friend and proteégeé, Democrat Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, suffered a humiliating defeat when the House recently voted down a dole-type unemployment-compensation bill approved by his Ways & Means Committee (TIME, May 12). Hopeful of succeeding Rayburn as Speaker one day, Mills was desperately anxious to avoid even the possibility of a similar defeat. But as a longtime supporter of reciprocal trade, he was also...
...right, Gen'l," drawled Georgia Democrat Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "Come on." Replied Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan F. Twining, trailing Vinson into the Congressman's private office: "Yes, sir." Twenty minutes later, Carl Vinson emerged, hat on head and cane in hand, and tossed a final instruction over his shoulder. "Fix it up," said he, "so I can read it tomorrow." With that, he went home, leaving Nate Twining to work on a revised version of the Eisenhower Administration's plan for reorganizing the Defense Department...
...pocked week. Into the legislative no man's land this time came the starred, earnest members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, each subordinate to the Commander in Chief, each a stout defender of his own military service, each urged to unburden himself to Georgia's cagey Democrat Carl Vinson and his 37-man battle group...
...York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman, no lawyer, turning full face against a fellow Democrat. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus: "Ours is a nation founded upon the rule of law. It is shocking to see a governor of one of the states calling out the National Guard, not to uphold the Constitution and orders of the Supreme Court but to defy them. Such action cannot be tolerated. It offends the concept of law on which our society is based...
...writes first drafts 1,000 pages long, delights in the freedom of freelancing that has driven many another writer back to the certainty of the payroll. Says he: "I resist the bigness that's coming to the magazine field. I'm a 19th century man." In 1952 Democrat Martin wrote a campaign biography of Adlai Stevenson; in 1956 he was a Stevenson staff writer...