Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the Administration and responsible leaders on Capitol Hill curbed the temptation to plunge into tax cuts. The Senate even voted down, 71 to 14, a premature tax-cut measure urged by Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas (see Democrats). But Democratic chiefs in both Houses and Administration voices made it clear that tax cuts lay ahead unless March statistics showed unemployment shrinkage...
There were a few hysterical Democratic outbursts. House Majority Leader John McCormack cried: "This recession was deliberately planned and put into operation by the Republican Administration." But the general Democratic strategy had been coldly planned and was coldly executed by Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and "Mister Sam" Rayburn. Its essentials: 1) let the Eisenhower Administration move first on tax cuts; the longer Ike waits, figure Democrats, the more laggard his party will appear; then 2) bump all Republican bets with a whopping Democratic tax slash aimed mostly at relief for middle-and lower-income workers, i.e., most U.S. voters. Meanwhile...
Minnesota's Democrat -Farmer -Labor Representative COYA KNUTSON...
...soldier in the ranks," wailed Brooklyn Democrat Manny Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. "I've got to do what the Speaker wants me to do." What House Speaker Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, 76, wanted, instead of a constitutional amendment, was a simple congressional statute that would give Congress the dominant voice in deciding whether a President is disabled and whether a Vice President ought to take over as Acting President. And after two hours of hot opposition to Mister Sam's ukase, the Judiciary Committee last week voted to send even the Celler version of the Mister...
This week in Washington, Labor Leader Walter Reuther would tell his side of the long-drawn-out Kohler strike to a Senate investigating committee that was hotly divided in its attitude toward the fiery United Auto Workers leader. Democrats would try to protect Democrat Reuther; Republicans were hoping to provoke him into left-wing excesses. Reason: the four-year-old Kohler strike is the nation's major labor-management battleground...