Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DEFENSE Retreat from Pessimism "The plain fact is," growled Texas Democrat George H. Mahon, as his House subcommittee on defense appropriations began emergency hearings last week on the status of U.S. missile programs, "that the Administration has not yet made the fundamental decisions that must be made. The Administration has not reacted as boldly as it should." One day later, after a parade of Pentagon experts led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy had spelled out missile progress to the subcommittee in crisp, uncensored terms, George Mahon emerged from the hearing room with a different story. Said he:"It is obvious...
Veto Power? Neither Foreign Minister Pineau nor Foreign Minister Von Brentano got half as much attention from the State Department press corps as Democrat Adlai Stevenson, arriving to take part in preparations for the Paris meetings. Dulles greeted Stevenson warmly in the fifth-floor diplomatic reception room, ushered him into his office for a 90-minute discussion, then gave him the office across the hall, normally occupied by Counselor G. Frederick Reinhardt...
...unannounced but unabashed run for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in 1960, Jack Kennedy has left panting politicians and swooning women across a large spread of the U.S. Taking off from the 1956 Democratic Convention, where he lost the nomination for Vice President to Tennessee's Estes Kefauver by a cliff hanging 38½ votes, Kennedy campaigned for the national ticket in 24 states-more than any Democrat except Adlai Stevenson and Kefauver. This year he has had more than 2,500 speaking invitations (they stream into his office, the mailboxes of his family, and even...
...Kennedy was already zeroing in on the 1952 race against Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., ordered his secretary to accept speaking engagements only outside his own district. There was not really much difference between the politics of the two: Kennedy, in many ways, was a conservative sort of Democrat, and Lodge was a liberal Republican. Kennedy accused Lodge of Senate absenteeism and Lodge accused Kennedy of House absenteeism (both were right). Kennedy's slogan was "Kennedy Will Do More for Massachusetts," and Lodge's was "Lodge Has Done-and Will Do-the Most for Massachusetts...
...strength in building him as a public figure, it is also a weakness in his presidential candidacy that Jack Kennedy, ever since he first went to Capitol Hill, has carved himself out perhaps the most independent record of any member of Congress. Items: ¶ In 1947, Massachusetts' Senior Democratic Representative John McCormack handed Kennedy a petition for presidential clemency for Boston's Mayor Curley, who was just then being packed off to jail for mail fraud. Said McCormack: "Sign it." Kennedy refused-the only Democrat in the Massachusetts delegation to do so. McCormack neither forgave nor forgot, especially...