Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin's job. obviously, was to offset this cornfield maneuvering with cloakroom argument. So effective were his efforts that, when the decisive vote finally came last week, the Southern Democrat-Midwest Republican coalition was punctured and the trial-by-jury amendment collapsed with...
Jenner is Jenner and Morse is Morse, and never the twain should meet. But last week Oregon's eyebrowed, highbrowed, liberal Democrat Wayne Morse rose in the Senate to blast the $3.6 billion foreign-aid authorization bill and found himself shoulder to shoulder not only with those strapping Neanderthal Republicans, Indiana's Bill Jenner and Nevada's Molly Malone, but with Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge too. And when the bill came to a vote after three days of debate, they stood together as part of a notable rear-view rear guard of 25 (see box), roundly beaten...
...Precedent. .Talmadge's stem-winding oratory was deflated by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, whose Middle Eastern trip last month made him a firmer advocate of Eisenhower foreign policy. "If one wishes to engage in finding very little blisters on the trunk of the great oak tree," said Democrat Humphrey, "it is possible to make it appear that the oak is almost ready to collapse, or that it never should have been a tree in the first place. But if one considers the totality of the program and does not concentrate on a little error here or a little...
...bill was an important Eisenhower victory because the bill was at the heart of the Administration's long overdue plan to give new sense and direction to foreign-aid spending. Still to come is an appropriations measure to provide the actual funds for fiscal 1958. Looking toward that, Democrat Johnson was cautious: "It may be that some downward adjustments can be made. This is a problem which we can solve when we consider the appropriations bill." But if Johnson foresaw a problem, he and his fellows also had created a precedent. By taking their stand against Morse and Talmadge...
...first child of their daughter Margaret and New York Timesman son-in-law Clifton Daniel. Asked if he hoped the baby would grow up to be President, the ex-Chief Executive said he wouldn't wish that on anybody, later gave a no-nonsense description of the young Democrat: "It looks like all babies two days...