Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Other Congressmen were still trying to find a Baruch-like formula. Alabama's Democrat John Sparkman presented to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee an amendment to the Truman program which would authorize 1) a wage freeze, 2) rationing of scarce commodities, 3) broad rent control, and 4) a rollback of prices to June 25-the day the Korean war began-and strict control as of that date...
...behind-the-scenes power in Louisiana politics (he backed the Longs and their friends, including New Orleans' onetime Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, involved with Helis in 1939's "hot oil" scandals); of a lung ailment; in Baltimore. Helis was a big spender, a big horseman, a sturdy Democrat who contributed liberally to Harry Truman's 1948 campaign...
...20th Century brought chaos to China (and to most of Asia) as a habitual way of life. K. C. Wu-a technician of order who was also a democrat and a Christian-had begun his career of fighting chaos...
With these words, Johnston effectively established the fact that, though not a Dixiecrat like Thurmond, he was just as anti-Negro. Johnston also made it clear that he hated Harry Truman just as much, only he was playing it smarter: by being a Democrat he could sabotage the President better from the inside...
...Sumner Pike to the Atomic Energy Commission. That opposition seemed to him foolish. He was perfectly aware, he said, that the ground was political; yes, party political; Republican Party political, if you please. It was no surprise to Truman that Colorado's heretic Edwin C. Johnson-a Democrat, of all things-had voted with the Republican Senators against Pike, for Johnson, the President observed, votes more Republican than Democrat...