Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Civic Association, which opposed him for mayor, is strictly a businessman's outfit. Eddic feels it doesn't "care a hoot" for the little fellow who elects Sullivan. "They're like the local Republican party and I'm a Democrat." After being mayor less than a week, Sullivan announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor's Council. He's lost only one election in his life: running for County Clerk of Courts on the Democratic ticket in 1952, he was defeated in the GOP landslide. "But it took Ike to beat me," he beamed...
...Basement. Hughes, 35, an Iowan who spent 16 years in the Army, showed up in Washington as a civilian in 1953 looking for a job as a McCarthy investigator. He never got it; but that was how he described himself, according to the prosecution, when he called on Democrat Fritchey, promising sensational disclosures because he was "disillusioned." Fritchey paid Hughes for months of "research." When that failed to produce any legal evidence against McCarthy, Fritchey bade Hughes goodbye...
...whether he voted for Republican Robert Taft against Democrat Joe Ferguson in Ohio's 1950 senatorial election. "I know Joe Ferguson. He is a good man: he's a decent man. I knew Bob Taft and I had profound respect for him because of his courage and devotion to duty . . . If I would say that I did not vote for Bob Taft I would not be telling the truth...
...whether he would vote for Dwight Eisenhower against a Democratic presidential candidate. "Everything else being equal. I would support the Democrat, although I want to say to you that in my judgment President Eisenhower has brought unity of thought to the nation. I think he has honestly and sincerely tried to evolve programs that would help the social, economic and governmental structure of my country...
...violate the budget process was one who had been a strong advocate of it. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), Franklin Roosevelt campaigned in defense of the budget program. In the 1932 campaign he promised to balance the budget. He appointed Lewis Douglas, a conservative Arizona Democrat, as Budget Director.* But Roosevelt's sudden decision to spend the U.S. out of the depression was too much for the budget and Lew Douglas (who stalked out of his job). Finally, Congress just handed Roosevelt some $8 billion and told him to get it spent...