Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees voted to reword the resolution granting President Eisenhower the authority he wants to act in the Middle East, New Jersey's Republican H. Alexander Smith met Montana's Democrat Mike Mansfield in the offices of the Foreign Relations Committee. "Mike," said Smith, with obvious exasperation, "just what did you accomplish with your amendment...
...twilight of the famed Roosevelt court and the rising sun of an Eisenhower court. In 1937 F.D.R. tried and failed to get Congress to raise the number of Justices from nine to 15. But he got the New Deal sympathy he wanted within three years by naming Liberal Democrats Hugo Black, Reed, Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas to succeed Justices Van Devanter, Sutherland, Cardozo and Brandeis-key figures on the court that New Dealers scornfully called "The Nine Old Men." Since 1953 Ike has named three-Republicans Chief Justice Earl Warren and John Marshall Harlan, Democrat William J. Brennan...
...federal government is resolved to support the policy of the U.S.," he proclaimed. "We neither want nor intend to risk losing their cooperation and support by carrying out experiments." Kurt Kiesinger, Christian Democrat chairman of the Bundestag foreign-affairs committee, took another hour and a half to recommend sticking close to the U.S., as the policy that gave Adenauer's party its smashing election victory four years...
Entering the House of Representatives two years ago with dewy eyes, Arizona's Democrat Stewart L. Udall, 34, a Tucson lawyer, quickly had the mist wiped away. Udall found himself on the Education and Labor Committee, discovered that the important 30-man committee functioned only when and however its aging conservative chairman, Graham Arthur Barden of North Carolina, willed. Working under an archaic two-sentence set of rules, i.e., meetings at the chairman's, call, formation of subcommittees only at the chairman's pleasure, the committee in Udall's first two years churned only ten important...
President Eisenhower's plan for a non-partisan monetary commission to study the nation's overall financial system (TIME, Jan. 21) ran into a strictly partisan ambush in Congress last week. By a vote of 16 Democrats to twelve Republicans, the House Banking and Currency Committee, with full covering fire from Speaker Sam Rayburn, rejected the President's plea for permission to appoint nine U.S. financial leaders to lead the study, instead decided to do the job itself. The chairman of the investigating committee would undoubtedly be Democrat Wright Patman. Said Speaker Rayburn: "If there is going...