Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week Nelson appeared as a witness in a House committee's inquiry into Washington lobbies. He had barely started to testify when Pennsylvania Democrat Frank Buchanan, the committee chairman, pulled out a letter and asked whether Nelson had written it. He had. It was addressed to the 1949 president of his organization, and it said...
...started in 1946, when the President decided to purge him from Congress because Slaughter, a Democrat from part of Harry Truman's own home territory, the Fifth Missouri District, persistently voted against the Truman program. Jim Pendergast, his Kansas City henchmen and other good Democrats, including the late Charlie Binaggio, were quick to oblige, but they were a little clumsy about it. They purged Roger Slaughter in the primaries, all right, but they let a Republican win the seat in the finals. And, after the election, 118 vote-fraud indictments were returned against Democratic primary workers. (Two were convicted...
...Promise. Brack Lee, at 51, is as ruggedly independent an the pioneers who settled in the shadows of the bleak Wasatch range. A 32nd degree Mason and member of no church in predominantly (74%) Mormon Utah, he had defeated Mormon Democrat Herbert Maw in 1948 by promising to run the state just the way he had run his real estate business in the coal-mining town of Price...
...practice of avoiding doubleheaders by scheduling morning and afternoon games instead (and incidentally collecting two admissions) is an Ebbets Field custom that has long irked Brooklyn fans. With a grand chance to win his constituents' esteem, Brooklyn Assemblyman Lawrence P. Murphy, a Democrat, introduced a bill in the New York State legislature last winter to prohibit such splitting of doubleheaders. Amid outraged cries from the Dodger front office ("An improper exercise of police power"), the bill passed both houses. Then it went to Governor Dewey for signature...
...months, Arkansas Democrat William J. Fulbright has been gathering evidence for a full-scale investigation of RFC by his Senate banking subcommittee. Last week, as his committee began hearings, it looked as though he had struck pay dirt at the first swing of his pick. The case was that of the Texmass Petroleum Co., an oil outfit which got authorization for a $10,100,000 loan from RFC in 1949. The money has not yet been paid out and Senator Fulbright hoped he could prevent its ever being drawn...