Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congratulate the President for some of the decisions he has made," said Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who only the week before was needling Eisenhower at every opportunity. Said the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Montana's Mike Mansfield: "For the first time in years the foreign-aid program has been presented in a form that looks manage able and salable." Minnesota's Fair-Dealing Hubert Humphrey was "delighted" with the message. House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who had brushed off Ike's State of the Union message last January as "one of those kind-of-usual...
...Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles argued the case for the Administration's foreign-aid program with so much persuasiveness that committeemen. already impressed with Ike's speech of the night before, gushed a remarkable torrent of praise. Even Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright. who had often delighted in baiting Dulles, called the revised aid program "wise and imaginative." As Dulles flushed redder than his wine-colored tie, Vermont's Republican George Aiken topped it all off. "I want to compliment you." he said, "on the compliments you have received...
...Knowland may in the end hurt most, for, as Conservative Columnist David Lawrence (see PRESS) said last week, "If the leadership of President Eisenhower is forsaken by an influential bloc in his party, the 'modern Republicans' will have no place to go in 1960 but with the Democrats. They will prefer a 'modern Democrat' to a Republican who deserted Eisenhower's leadership...
Like any prudent Congressman quick to heed even the silliest requests from a constituent, Brooklyn Democrat John J. Rooney, 53, asked the Library of Congress to ransack its stacks and files for the words to an oldtime ditty entitled The Lobster Is the Wise Guy, After AIL The library, one of the world's great literary storehouses, was embarrassed to reply that it could not locate Rooney's Lobster among its Crustacea volumes or anywhere else. At hearings on the library's budget, Representative Rooney scolded Librarian of Congress L Quincy Mumford: "I was amazed to find...
Last week Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was telling an improbable yarn about the G.O.P., but asserting that it "could have happened." The Keef's rib-tickler: After a newsman asked a Republican Congressman to define "Modern Republicanism," a Democratic bystander gave the answer: "Modern Republicanism is excitingly and dynamically conservative. It is neither inflexibly traditional nor discordantly progressive. It is at once distinctive and secure, but never overwhelming or confining. It has dignity, quality and dependability. It is designed for men and women of early middle age with an income of over $25,000 a year...