Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration, they said in effect, will urge cuts if the economy fails to perk up as expected. The promise underlined an essential fact about the recession: while the U.S. Government cannot prevent downturns, it is inescapably committed to combat them, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat. Because of this commitment, Vice President Nixon could say with considerable confidence of his own last week: "The American people can make their plans for 1958 with confidence rather than fear...
Federal Communications Commissioner Richard Alfred Mack glanced uneasily around at the members of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, licked his dry lips, and said: "I want to apologize that I may seem a little nervous this morning." Democrat Mack had plenty to be nervous about: he was accused of accepting money and other favors for his vote to grant Miami's Channel 10 television franchise to a National Airlines subsidiary. The House subcommittee let Mack read a 4,000-word statement, handled him gently for a while, then cuffed him sharply-and weak Richie Mack left...
...subcommittee had heard enough -and more than enough. Member after member, both Republicans and Democrats, began demanding Mack's resignation. Finally it came the turn of Chairman Oren Harris, an Arkansas Democrat. In a soft, almost regretful voice, he read a five-page statement. "I feel sorry for you," said Harris. "You are to be pitied, in my opinion, because I think you have been used as a tool in this unfortunate mess. It seems to me that the best possible service that you could render now as a member of the Federal Communications Commission would be to submit...
...cigarette industry has done a grave disservice to the smoking public [by] publicizing the filter-tip smoke as a health protection." So saying last week, the House Government Operations Committee, headed by Illinois Democrat William L. Dawson, angrily lit into the U.S. tobacco industry. The committee found, after study and hearings, that cigarette makers boosted filter-tip sales from 1.4% of the market in 1952 to better than 40% today by playing on the cancer scare with "deceptive" and "misleading" ads. Actually, said the committee, "the filter cigarette smoker is, in most cases, getting as much or more nicotine...
Quick support for Brigitte's right to be shown came from Mayor Richardson Dilworth,* longtime political foe of Fellow Democrat Blanc. Cracked Dilworth: "Mr. Blanc thinks he's going to get all the votes of the women's clubs by denouncing sin." In turn, Blanc darkly noted that Dilworth's former law partners were representing the film distributor, declared: "In my opinion, the mayor is using his elective office to help his old law firm...