Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point on which to criticize when he must resort to making vulgar and sneering remarks on the Vice President's dress. Constructive criticism is good for everyone, but Murray Kempton's ill-chosen words are offensive and insulting to every decent-minded American, whether he be Democrat or Republican...
...wake in the Lawrence-Lynn area, and one of his aides was sure to attend, delicately dropping the word that he was there as Lane's personal representative. Even though he was serving a four-month term for evading $38,542 in income tax (TIME, March 19), Democrat Lane, 58, kept his fences in order. Last week he walked out of the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Conn, and announced that he will seek re-election to the House seat he has held since...
...Senate Banking and Currency Committee began to investigate, as did federal and county grand juries. Other newspapers moved in. Rapidly, Paschen's troubles were becoming double trouble to his sponsor, Dick Daley, and to the Democratic machine. Not only was their campaign case against the Republicans slipping away but Democrat John Gutknecht, up for re-election as Cook County state's attorney, was in for trouble himself if he tried to protect Paschen. Democrats feared that the county treasurer's trouble might even hurt Illinois' Adlai Stevenson...
...longtime friend remarked recently, like "the boy next door-35 years later," he has turned the Fed, after a ten-year interlude (1941-51) as a puppet of the Treasury, back into an independent and effective custodian of the nation's money. Republican officials sometimes question Democrat Martin's judgment, notably after he boosted the discount rate last spring, at a time when many experts thought that a slump in business was ahead. But no one ever questions his integrity. He is famed in Washington as a man of low pressure and high principle, the boy wonder...
...Democrat Martin ran the FRB so efficiently that he was the highest-level holdover in the Administration when President Eisenhower called him to the White House to announce his reappointment as chairman in March 1955. At the same time, Ike confided, he intended to announce that Martin would also be named to a full 14-year term as a member of the FR Board of Governors when his predecessor's term expired in another nine months. But Martin persuaded Eisenhower to postpone the advance nomination. "Mr. President," he smiled, "by next January we might have a big depression...