Word: lidded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unanimously recommended abandonment of the loyalty rule, adopted in 1952 to keep Southern Democrats in line for the party presidential slate. Advisory committee members confidently predicted that the national committee and the 1956 convention would follow their recommendation, and thereby bury the old issue. But within three days the lid of the coffin snapped open, and the body of the loyalty oath bounced...
...support unless Faure would "remake our old majority," i.e., get the support of the Socialists for a left-center coalition. Dutifully, Faure tried. But the Socialists, eager to campaign for higher wages in the 1956 elections without the embarrassment of having participated in a government that kept the lid on, refused him. Faure turned to the conservatives for his majority, and Mendès turned openly hostile...
Members of the society must belong to the SLID unless they have a valid reason for not joining, James Farmer, Field Secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy, said last night. "While most LID and SLID members probably advocate socialism, many other members consider themselves liberal Republicans," Farmer said...
...LID and SLID are tax-exempt educational organizations which do not lobby or endorse political candidates, Farmer said. He likened the relationship between the LID and the Fabian Society to that between the ADA and the Harvard Liberal Union...
...that is to say, any just plain person as against a critic or somebody that is looking at it with a special frame of reference, usually his own witticisms-that saw these shows in color with the limited number of sets available, who just didn't flip his lid, as we say at the high executive level...