Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sector that cuts might have been looked for to balance increases in defense spending. In his Oklahoma City speech in mid-November, the President said that "savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities." That warning drew from Democrat Adlai Stevenson, and the liberal camp, pained protests against dismantling the welfare state. But Ike's 1959 budget should soothe such fears: the welfare state comes through remarkably beefy...
...Dulles, the U.S. foreign policy expert who has caused the greatest stir in Europe's capitals this season is George Frost Kennan, 53, former State Department policymaker and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, now a visiting professor at Britain's Oxford University. In November and December, Democrat Kennan fanned European neutralism when he proposed, over the British Broadcasting Corp., that the West start up negotiations with the U.S.S.R. leading to the neutralization of Germany and later of Europe (TIME, Dec. 23), and just before the NATO conference he came perilously close to undercutting the U.S. position...
...Accepted the resignation of South Carolina's former Representative James P. Richards as special presidential assistant for the Middle East. Richards' primary job-that of selling the Eisenhower Doctrine to the Middle East-was done. In his letter to President Eisenhower, Democrat Richards paid tribute to Republican Dulles: "My work under the immediate direction of the Secretary of State, during this trying period of our foreign relations, has only increased my confidence in his courage, wisdom and integrity...
...Appointed Florida's moderately conservative former (1929-33) Governor Doyle Elam Carlton, 70, to the new Civil Rights Commission to fill the vacancy left by retired Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed (TIME, Dec. 16). Says Democrat Carlton, who keeps his sentiments on segregation largely to himself: "I will be sitting, in effect, as a judge and jury, and I want to pass honestly and fairly on every matter." Justice Reed's commission chairmanship went to Vice Chairman John A. Hannah, 55, president of Michigan State University...
...Once upon a time," said Nikita, "there were three men in a prison. They were a Social Democrat, an anarchist and a humble little Jew?a half-educated,little fellow named Pinya. They decided to elect a cell leader who would watch over distribution of food, tea and tobacco. The anarchist, a big, burly fellow, was against such a lawful process as electing authority. To show his contempt for law and order, he proposed that insignificant little Pinya be elected. They elected Pinya. Things went well, and they decided to escape. The Social Democrat had a good intellect; he made...