Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farmers. "The farmers aren't just mad at Benson," cracked Washington's Democrat Warren G. Magnuson. "They're mad at everybody." Iowa Democrat Merwin Coad charged back determined to override the President's veto of the bill freezing farm-price supports at 1957 levels (TIME, April 14). But he had little intersectional support; Republican Willard S. Curtin polled his Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, found them mostly for flexible supports or for no supports at all. Said Sam Rayburn: "Nobody told me anything about removing Benson." Said Maine Democrat Frank Coffin, from the midst of dairy country: "There...
Foreign Aid. "People are very much in favor of it," reported Connecticut G.O.P. Congressman Edwin May. "I'm in favor," said Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, "but the people in my district show very little interest." "My people are in favor of cutting down," said South Carolina Democrat William Jennings Bryan Dorn. Said Minnesota's First District Congressman Albert H. Quie: "There's been a change in Minnesota. I've even seen farmer meetings where resolutions are passed supporting reciprocal trade." Chicago Democrat John C. Kluczynski switched over recess from an anti-aid stand. Said...
...election-year Congress would quit making a big political thing out of the recession. On the other hand, there was high hope that its members had assimilated perhaps the most important finding to come out of a grass-roots tour since the New Deal days. The people, as Maine Democrat Frank Coffin put it, displayed "powerful basic confidence in the American economy." The confidence was grounded not on Washington slogans but on a remarkably unanimous conviction among workers, farmers and businessmen that the U.S. economy itself could cure the recession...
...Times Herald, "places the U.S. in an extremely ugly position before world opinion." "Like Carmen Basilic," said the New York Times's James Reston, "the U.S. has taken a terrible beating.'' The St. Louis Post-Dispatch talked of "an unnecessary loss of initiative in peace negotiations." Democrat Adlai Stevenson, who had unavailingly proposed in his 1956 campaign that the U.S. suspend its own nuclear tests unilaterally, feared that the U.S.S.R.'s move might "deprive us of the moral leadership...
...judgments on occasion prove as hasty as his stopovers. In 1955's Inside Africa he predicted confidently that independence would not come soon to Morocco; less than a year after Inside Africa appeared on the bookstalls, Morocco was independent. The last 1951 edition of Inside U.S.A. perpetuates Stevenson Democrat Gunther's three-year-old thumbs-down verdict on Earl Warren (whom he had not met): "He will never set the world on fire or even make it smoke." In all his 35 years as a foreign-news specialist, Gunther has never learned a foreign language. His critics also...