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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surveyed the U.S. political landscape through a Democratic lens and liked what he saw. In the White House was a lame-duck Republican President, unbeatable in the past but barred by the Constitution from running again in 1960. Going up to Capitol Hill in January is a Congress dominated by Democrats as it has not been since 1937. There seemed a good chance that the strong Democratic winds of 1958 might blow at gale force in 1960, carrying The Man Who all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...elections, Humphrey probably stood behind both Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and New York's Governor Averell Harriman as the strongest entry from the Democratic Fair Dealing wing. But Harriman was torpedoed in the elections, "Soapy" Williams ran fifth on his state ticket-and Humphrey moved past them both...
Hubert Humphrey masterminded his-Minnesota Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party to a sweeping 1958 victory (TIME, Nov. 17) and still managed to roll up 20,000 miles campaigning for Democrats in i& states. He is an avowed Fair Dealer, but separates himself from past liberal flops by explaining that he is a "visceral" liberal-strong on farm supports, reclamation, competitive coexistence with Russia, civil rights, etc.-as opposed to an "intellectual" or "New York" liberal - inter ested "only in civil rights and immigra tion." As a Senator. Humphrey has worked hard and with some success at winning the regard of conservative...
...waist tied the knotted white cord of the Third Order of St. Francis. Boston politicians draped City Hall in crape and half-staffed flags; they carried the casket to the Statehouse, where it rested three days with a policemen's guard around the bier and 100,000 filing past. Whispered one old lady: "If the Good Lord had made a pact with Curley and given him a choice between this here and a little more time on earth, Curley would have taken this...
...Kemal Ataturk overturned and reformed the Islamic rigidities of the Ottoman Empire in 1924, Turkish women by the thousands have come out from behind the veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small voice from the past. Lawyer Osman Nuri Lermioglu, a Democratic Deputy from Trabzon on the Black Sea, presented Parliament with a draft bill that would allow a Turk legally to have two wives, but only if the first wife were ill or sterile. To prove that he was no Terrible Turk with a passion...