Word: membered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars, power boats and vacation-bound plane trips, was an almost rebellious hostility toward threatened tax boosts and heavy governmental spending. "Wherever I go," said Boston Democrat John E. Powers, president of the state senate, "all I hear is 'cut that budget!' " Echoed Chicago Republican Albert Hachmeister, member of the state legislature: "Even parents of schoolchildren come to me and say, 'No more tax increases, please, not even for schools.' " Said San Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher: "It used to be a simple matter for a petitioner to get people to sign a petition...
Weariness of price upcreep made many a union member skeptical about the value of wage boosts won by unions. Admitted a United Auto Workers official in Detroit, on the eve of the threatened steel strike (see BUSINESS) : "My guess is that the steel strike will get as little actual support, from the public and from labor in general, as any strike ever got. The average working stiff is becoming much more realistic about these things...
...granddaddy of them all, Rhode Island's 91-year-old Senator Theodore Francis Green, was certain that such an attack by a national chairman on fellow Democrats was "most unusual and, I believe, completely without precedent." A member of the National Committee himself, Green sternly warned Butler not to use his office as "a gun pit from which to fire on Democratic candidates...
...Johnson and his program. Among them: Alaska's Bob Bartlett, Florida's Spessard Holland, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Alabama's John Sparkman. "Great progressive leadership," cried Ohio's Stephen Young. This was far more than the usual reflex action to an attack on a member of the club: the Johnsonian gonfalon, it was plain to see, was moving deep into the liberal ranks...
...Schmid's health should fail (he suffered a stroke in 1956), the party might put forward another member of the selection commission, a man who is otherwise being groomed to run for Chancellor in 1965 : West Berlin's dynamic Mayor Willy Brandt, 45. Nobody needs to worry where Willy stands on Communism...