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Charges that the new budget was "political" made scant sense in view of the strenuous arguments by some of the President's own Cabinet members that, in the mood of the times, taking a stand on a balanced budget is politically unprofitable (see Republicans). More to the point were the charges by New-Dealish Democrats that, in pushing for a balanced budget, the President was neglecting home-front welfare jobs that needed doing. But implicit in such complaints was an assumption that Dwight Eisenhower explicitly rejects: the assumption that it is the Federal Government's duty to take...
...unquestioned devoutness is a target in a campaign marked by anticlerical attacks. His New-Dealish social program makes him unpalatable to conservative Christian Democrats. His all-out organizing methods antagonize the other democratic middle-road parties, whose support has been essential to Christian Democratic rule since 1953 (he lasted only twelve days in his one fling at the premiership four years ago). A recent poll showed that not Fanfani, the party leader, but former Premier and now Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella is the most popular Christian Democrat in Italy...
...term expires in May. To support their plea to keep Clapp, a delegation of TVA area residents headed by S. (for States) R. (for Rights) Finley of Chattanooga, handed President Eisenhower a stack of petitions bearing 60,321 signatures. But Eisenhower wants an administrator with a less New-Dealish background. Likeliest candidate: Chattanooga egg dealer and longtime GOPolitician, Harry C. Carbaugh...
...Democratic committee also installed a new chairman, Senator J. Howard McGrath, the New-Dealish Rhode Islander who had been Harry Truman's personal choice to run his campaign (TIME, Oct. 6). McGrath had no sooner taken over the chair from ailing Bob Hannegan than he had a chance to demonstrate his ability to duck. The committeemen had prepared a resolution condemning almost in toto the work of the 80th Congress. McGrath spiked the resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor...
Provisional President Romulo Betancourt's new-dealish Action Democrdtica Party won by a landslide, away out in front of the conservative Copei Party, the middle-of-the-road Democratic Republican Union and the Communists...