Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Senate last week, Democrats reacted with the fury of men who knew they had been hurt. They hurled orator after orator into the attack. They centered their fire on the statement framed by the four G.O.P. members of the Foreign Relations Committee (TIME, Aug. 21) blaming Administration "blunders" for the U.S.'s hasty postwar demobilization, for "failing to recognize the true aims and methods" of Soviet Russia, for giving the Kremlin "a green light to grab whatever it could in China, Korea and Formosa." Snapped Democrat Tom Connally: "A document of complaint and quarrelsomeness." Added Connecticut's Brien...
...easy-come, easy-go ladling out of cash, RFC has been roundly criticized by congressional reformers. Last week, President Truman ousted two of the lending agency's top officials: Chairman Harley Hise (Democrat) and Director Harvey J. Gunderson (Republican...
...replace Hise and Gunderson on RFC's board, and to fill the vacancy left by Director Henry Mulligan, who resigned almost four months ago, the President last week made three nominations: two were Democrats-Oklahoma Banker W. Elmer Harber and Massachusetts Lawyer C. Edward Rowe-and the third was a Republican who talks like a Democrat: Utah Banker Walter E. Cosgriff. The President also renominated RFC Director William E. Willett, to a three-year term. He will probably be the new RFC chairman...
After a few warm-up parries, one of them made a serious thrust by bringing up the fact that Harry Truman's candidate in the Missouri Democratic Senate primary-Emery Allison-had lost. Would the President support the Democrat who won, anyway...
During last week's stormy House debate on wartime economic controls (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Ohio Democrat Walter B. Huber uncorked a surprise. He jumped to his feet and offered an amendment calling for a corporate excess profits tax. Without bothering to ask for details, the House promptly gave its approval by a standing vote. When House Republicans later found that Huber's amendment would restore the sky-high 80% maximum tax (and the same basis for computing it) as in World War II, they forced another vote, and the amendment was tossed...