Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ohio's "Mr. Republican," Robert A. Taft, running unopposed, got 73,000 more votes in the Republican primary than all seven candidates seeking the Democratic nomination put together. The winning Democrat, who will face Taft in November, is bouncy, bombastic State Auditor Joseph ("Jumping Joe") T. Ferguson. Since Jumping Joe, a jovial hack, was a bit weak on big world issues, Democrats had to reassure themselves that at least he was quite a vote getter. The story goes that when asked what he thought about Formosa, Jumping Joe replied: "Don't worry about Formosa-I carried...
...meeting its international responsibilities (e.g., the Marshall Plan). In 1938, in an outspoken editorial called "A Way of Life," the Times said that World War II was coming and that the U.S. would-and should-be involved. The Times also abandoned its traditional "independent Democratic" leanings to support Willkie in 1940, Dewey in 1948. Says Publisher Sulzberger, a registered Democrat: "I wish we could be just 'independent...
...bitterness stored up as a prisoner of war. Clift becomes disillusioned in a love affair with a calculating Berlin girl (Cornell Borchers) who hopes to use him as a passport to the U.S. Douglas is shamed by another German girl (Bruni Lobel) who turns out to be a better democrat than he is. Out of these experiences, and a string of minor incidents, the picture builds an oversimplified but well-argued U.S. point of view toward Germany-i.e., compassion with vigilance...
...However, since you did support Truman, since you are the only group at Harvard which supports the so-called Fair Deal, and since your leader, Senator Humphrey, has supported it on every issue except interstate transportation of oleomargarine, we feel that it is your duty to support the Democratic line in a joint forum, just as another Democrat, Stephen Douglas, defended slavery in debates with Abraham Lincoln...
Should the Reconstruction Finance Corp. be abolished? Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, whose Senate banking subcommittee is now investigating RFC (TIME, April 24), last week found somebody who thinks so: Texas Banker Jesse H. Jones, head of RFC for 13 years after the agency was first...