Word: publically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration contention that Wenzell's role invalidated the contract. Argued the court in a 3-to-2 decision: the Budget Bureau, aware that Wenzell was a First Boston officer, employed him to expedite the contract to further the Administration policy of fostering private rather than public power. That policy, held the court, was "perfectly legitimate." Argued the two dissenting judges: Wenzell's dual role involved a conflict of interest that violated "dominant public policy...
...stand, he invariably throws the script away and becomes a wildcat liberal, promising the world to his listeners. "And the people in front of him just don't want the world right now," explains a worried Humphrey advocate. In his offstage moments, Humphrey himself senses the public's present wariness of pie-in-the-sky liberalism. "It's the most dangerous thing in the world," he says. "That's what happened to Stevenson...
...Senate Class of 1948 was the last to go to Washington with Fair Deal liberals predominating. Since then, the old appeals have gradually faded. Many an orthodox liberal has lost his enthusiasm for big farm supports, big housing dreams, and big labor. And as the U.S. public has changed to a pay-as-you-go attitude, so have the liberals changed. "These men," says Indiana's freshman Democratic Congressman John Brademas of his classmates, "are well educated. Yet they have an earthiness about them. They worked up the tough way. They did not float in on any cloud...
...liberals are clearer, at this point, about what they are not than about what they are, some are giving deep thought to the future. A chorus of liberal ayes greeted Columnist Walter Lippmann's recent definition of the mission of the Democratic Congress: "It would be to prepare public opinion for the future, which is not yet here but is near at hand. It would be to prepare public opinion for the decade of the '60s, which, assuming that there is no war, is bound to be an era of great innovation and development of our public activities...
...bottom. The trouble was, said the colonel, that too often such women came in two categories-either "provocatively clad" or, if "less young and shapely, disgustingly clad." Last week the colonel clamped down in earnest. From now on, any serviceman's wife who tries to enter a public building on base will have her identity card "checked for appropriate follow-up action...