Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMID the swift social changes and sudden international crises of the mid-20th century, the impatient and the doctrinaire often complain that Congress - slow-moving, operating through committees and compromises -is an awkward antique, a hindrance to national efficiency, perhaps even a handicap in the race for national survival. In...
¶The lawmaking initiative has migrated from the Capitol to the White House. The idea of an Administration legislative program "is now so familiar that it is hard to realize how recent it is in our national history, and how contrary in many respects to the traditional concepts of the...
¶Congress has even lost much of its old control of the national purse, historically the basic and decisive power of Parliaments. In 1957's Battle of the Budget, Congress huffed and puffed about cutting, but when the din died away, the President's budget was only nicked...
WHAT brought about Congress' decline? The underlying factor, says Burnham, has been the 20th century trend toward what he calls "de mocratism"-democracy carried to the extreme of insisting that the national government must directly represent the majority will. And ultimately, democratism leads to "Caesarism," with a national election...
Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler, 60, an up-from-newsboy who wants to be elected Democratic President of the U.S. in 1960. Back in the 1935 Kentucky primary, Happy grabbed the patronage-controlling Governor's chair, parlayed it into a U.S. Senate seat (1939-45) and then-after a showboating...