Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...losing, however, they had solace. If the bill's final draft clears the Ways and Means Committee on schedule this week, it will face heavy opposition on the House floor. And in the Senate there will be the Finance Committee, where presides sharp-eyed, penny-conscious Democrat Harry Flood Byrd, a man with plenty of power and a longstanding aversion to pies...
Sending his Pentagon reorganization legislation to Congress last week, President Eisenhower opened the floodgates on the great debate and waited. He did not have long to wait for a Niagara from the man who has long rained over military matters in Congress: Georgia's seasoned, sharp-tongued Democrat Carl Vinson, 74, member of the House for 43 years, chairman of the old House Naval Affairs Committee for 16 years, and unchallenged czar of the Armed Services Committee for seven of the eleven years of its life...
...prospect can look like Cinderella, but he must also have a sure touch with the fairy godmother's political wand. Bob Meyner was Cinderellegant last November; he swept to a second term at Trenton with the highest vote total (1,000,000) ever registered by a New Jersey Democrat (TIME, Nov. 18). And last week his political wand struck sparks. Winner in a tight battle for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator: handpicked, hand-pushed Meyner Candidate Harrison A. Williams...
Angry Rival. "Pete" Williams' margin was narrow, but it left no doubt that Meyner is now in command of the Jersey Democrats. At the beginning of the campaign, Williams, a personable, articulate Oberlin and Columbia law graduate who was twice elected to Congress from normally Republican Union County, was a vote-drawing favorite. Then dissident Democrats in boss-ridden Hudson County broke with Meyner over patronage. Against Williams they put up John J. Grogan, 44, mayor of Hoboken and president of the Shipbuilders Union. Williams' hopes were dimmed further when New Jersey's un-merged A.F.L...
...Admiral was taking nonsense from nobody-not even Massachusetts' Democrat John W. McCormack, chairman of the committee, who made the mistake of observing that one of his subcommittees once recommended that there should be more stability in the technical services of the military establishment. Back came Rickover: "I indict you. You wrote a report and then did nothing to put it into effect...