Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...registered Democrat, may I say that the more I find out about Jack Kennedy the better I like Dick Nixon...
...Members of Congress.'' says Arkansas' Democratic Representative Wilbur D. (for Daigh) Mills, "are fair but stern judges for each other. After you have been here for a while, you're tabbed as either knowing your subject or not knowing it. I've sought to know my subject." Last week Wilbur Mills, 48, stepped into the powerful job of chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which shapes the nation's tax legislation. The move, prompted by the death of Tennessee Democrat Jere Cooper (see MILESTONES), followed normal seniority rules, but still...
...federal storage depots as of Dec. 1 were 12,500 tons of dried milk, 17,000 tons of butter, 89,000 tons of cheese. But politicos from dairy-farm states predictably joined Republican Burdick in bipartisan booing at Benson's announcement. ''A shocking injustice!" cried Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire. "A mistake!" snapped Vermont Republican George Aiken, an old Benson defender. Said Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey: "Mr. Benson has taken the place of Scrooge...
...hungrily eying the U.S. Senate seat that William E. Jenner will put up for grabs next year. Roared Senator Capehart: "We're split right down the middle. All you do is beat the brains out of the Eisenhower Administration. All you do is assure the election of a Democratic President in 1960." To State Chairman Matthews, who all but read Eisenhower Republican Halleck out of the party last month, the veteran (23 years) Congressman shouted: "I don't think two Republican Parties can beat one Democrat. We might as well face it. We're the minority party...
Died. Jere Cooper, 64, Tennessee Congressman (from 1929), head of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee since 1955; of coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md. A slow-moving, oratorical technician, Democrat Cooper helped push through the present pay-as-you-go tax system...