Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Predictably, congressional reaction ranged from sympathetic understanding to outrage. Arkansas' William Fulbright, second-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, thought that Britain had simply acted because she was weary of waiting for the U.S. to change its "sterile" China policy. Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, unyielding foe of Peking and long twitted as the ''Senator from Formosa," rose on the Senate floor to warn that the British trade might "some day in the not too distant future strengthen Communist China to the point where it can feel it dares to take the risk of taking...
...worked his way through two years of college, then taught high school in home-town Burleson (pop. 800), and coached an unbeaten football team on the side, until he could save enough to start himself through the University of Texas law school. During his final year of law school, Democrat Anderson campaigned for the state legislature on weekends, was elected the day he graduated (with the best scholastic record in the school's history...
Politics. A longtime Democrat and friend of Texas Democratic politicos (including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn), Anderson backed Ike in 1952, switched his registration to Republican in 1956. In general outlook, Anderson could well serve as a model Eisenhower Republican. George Humphrey, who became an Anderson friend and admirer through Cabinet contacts, recommended him as the best man for the Treasury...
...Washington's political spectrum, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Minnesota's Stevensonian Democrat Hubert Humphrey are many shades apart. Yet last week Senator Humphrey and Secretary Dulles emerged arm in arm from a conference at Dulles' home in which Dulles heaped laurels on Humphrey. Reason: so sharp an impression of U.S. interest had Humphrey created during a four-week tour of Europe and the Middle East, so well did he defend U.S. policy there, that diplomatic cables into Foggy Bottom were buzzing with well-dones...
...Democrat for Hoover. Lawrence, whose column runs in 275 dailies, is a staunch champion of states' rights who has relentlessly criticized the Administration for pushing public-school integration, which he calls "forced association." He has also differed with Eisenhower over fiscal policy, arguing that the Administration's unwillingness to be tough with "labor monopolies" has brought on inflation. A Virginia Democrat (Fairfax County), Lawrence calls himself a "liberal conservative," has voted for every G.O.P. presidential candidate since he supported Hoover in 1932. He is considered a bellwether of the far right, but, while many of his views...