Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheerful, chunky (5 ft. 5 in., 196 lbs.) Democrat DiSalle, a man of notable affability even in his harried term (1950-52) as President Truman's Price Administrator, is determined not to fail. Already he has irritated educators, businessmen and politicians with a tighten-up-and-tax budget. And last week he incurred the wrath of Ohio's powerful A.F.L.-C.I.O., which backed him heavily in his campaign last fall...
...Boston Democrats never had a more successful fund-raising dinner than last week's testimonial for John E. Powers, candidate for mayor. The faithful turned out 2,190 strong for filet mignon at $100 a plate, and by evening's end, Powers' nomination was put down as a political certainty. Nobody minded much that the state's top Democrat, Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, was off on Senate business, for he was represented in the two seats of honor by brother Ted and by Powers himself, a leading Kennedy lieutenant. Perhaps it was better, thought some, that...
After long months of tolerance, the House Patronage Committee grew weary of the lowly paper-folder on the House office staff (salary: $4,000 a year) who had been eased onto the payroll by Pennsylvania's late, sympathetic Democrat Herman Eberharter. With little ado, the committee decided that the nation could henceforth do without the services of brassy John Maragon, 65, onetime Kansas City bootblack, who connived his way to a reputation as one of the Truman era's sleaziest five-percenters...
Heading home from Washington for the holiday recess, New Jersey's freshman Senator Harrison Williams echoed the cry of many another Capitol Hill Democrat about President Eisenhower's proposals for a balanced budget in fiscal 1960. The whole notion, said "Pete" Williams, was "mythical." At about the same time last week, Pete Williams & Co. got some studied support for their argument: a staff report from the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation flatly predicted that the Eisenhower Administration's hopes for a balanced budget are doomed to red-ink disappointment. Federal income in 1960, said...
...anathema to many old-line publishers, who consider him an absentee press lord, a businessman only casually interested in the papers themselves. But Newhouse can argue that he cares so much for the autonomy of his papers that he generally leaves editorial matters completely in local hands. A registered Democrat, Newhouse even leaves political stands untouched; e.g., in Syracuse, his Republican Post-Standard scraps with his Democrat-leaning Herald-Journal. One notable exception to his hands-off policy is the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, where he replaced a dozen top editorial staffers, slashed non-editorial expenses and personnel, eventually reaped...