Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-to-do landowners, Segni became a professor of civil law, no sooner swung into politics in his 30s than he swung right out again in the face of Italian Fascism. He left his law books once more to help found the Christian Democrat Party in the 1940s, and since 1944 has regularly held Cabinet posts in the government. As Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in 1950, he drafted the land-reform bills that helped turn back Italy's rising Communist tide, ultimately freed nearly 2,000,000 acres of privately owned land for distribution among 150,000 peasants...
With the U.S., under a Republican Administration, preparing to talk turkey with Red leaders, the political opportunity is obvious for Democrats to stake out a position from which they can, if things go sour, charge the G.O.P. with being "soft on Communism." Yet no Democratic presidential candidate in his prudence would ever get that far out on such a limb; Dwight Eisenhower's prestige is too great and, what is more, things might turn out far from sour. That being the case, the party position-staking last week was left to a Democrat who is not running...
...negotiations with Khrushchev-the summit meeting, Eisenhower's visit to Russia, or whatever-should turn into trouble, or even into increased tension between the U.S.S.R. and the West, the position taken by Dean Acheson would become a valuable platform for a Democrat to stand...
Another important factor was the quality of the minority Republican leadership revived under Charlie Halleck in the House and Everett Dirksen in the Senate, both of whom were able to work closer with the President than their predecessors. One consequence was a renewal of the Republican and Southern Democrat coalition. The Democratic leadership found its problem in controlling the Southerners rather than the ineffective liberals. Judge Howard Smith of Virginia retained his arbitrary direction of the House Rules Committee despite Rayburn's pledge to control him. And Johnson was unable to keep his promise of a civil rights bill...
...question "How Liberal is the 86th Congress?" will be posed by Earl Latham, visiting professor of Government and Chairman of the Department at Amherst, in a short talk at 7:30 p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room. Williams, a liberal Democrat from New Jersey, will speak on the stated topic, then open the floor to questions...