Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat, I take back all the things I said about TIME. That was a good lead article [Feb. 24] on the President's absenteeism...
Earlier in the week a bipartisan group of Senators led by Illinois Republican Everett McKinley Dirksen and Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver had proposed a new constitutional amendment that said substantially that. But the amendment was bound to run into a roadblock in the person of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who is determined that Congress shall have the decisive voice as to whether the President is disabled...
...urged the city council to repeal Baltimore's tax on newspaper and TV advertising (TIME, Nov. 18), which Mayor Tommy had himself rammed through last fall. Last week, while the council mulled over the mayor's proposal (which would also give a shot in the arm to Democrat D'Alesandro's campaign for the U.S. Senate), Maryland's general assembly beat Tommy to the gun by passing a Senate-approved bill outlawing ad taxes anywhere in the state. Republican Governor Theodore R. McKeldin assured newsmen that he would sign the bill into law, thus boosting...
...cooking breakfast for Peter and his friends (John 21:9-12). Such scriptural sources and sauces have been tapped for a brand-new manual of Christian cookery, The Bible Cookbook (Bethany Press; $3.95). Author Marian Maeve O'Brien, food editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, teaches Sunday-school at Grace Episcopal Church in suburban Kirkwood, and her Biblical studies have well served her culinary know...
...score of separate Russian governments were contesting Lenin's right to rule on Russian soil. The Russian people were famine-ridden and war-weary. Lenin himself relied on endless improvisation. If this was one of history's great lost opportunities, the chief culprit was Wood-row Wilson. Democrat Kennan admits: "[Wilson] drew onto himself, ultimately, the blame for the failure of the entire venture (on the ground that the United States' contribution had been too little and too late...