Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Horse Thieves" & Bounties. In the House the fight was closer, the debate more fiery. When the bill was called up, Michigan's Democrat John Dingell rose to the attack. "Horse thieves have been hanged for lesser crimes," he shouted. Cried Ohio's Democrat Robert Grosser: "The bounty of the Creator is being grabbed for a privileged...
Paul Douglas, Democrat from Illinois, 58, the ablest, best-balanced liberal Democrat in the Senate and its most impressive freshman in years. He is a humanitarian who does not believe government should do all things for all men, a maverick liberal who also insists on prudent spending ("To be a liberal one does not have to be a wastrel") An ex-professor, and a veteran of Chicago's rough & tumble city council, he has the economist-sociologist mind, a notable capacity for collecting, sifting and appraising facts...
Scott Lucas, Democrat from Illinois, 58, majority leader. At first irascible, impatient, and ineffective, he has learned how to work with his colleagues, to accept the slowness of Senate processes, and to keep his ulcers from acting up. In White House conferences, he gives President Truman an honest count, even when it is painful. He fought gallantly for the civil rights program, beat off crippling amendments aimed at ECA, even went to a Republican caucus to plead for a liberalized D.P. bill. Not brilliant, he is a slogging, dogged fighter...
...Wicks got in touch with his old friend, Dan O'Connell, Albany's Democratic boss. Dan was sick in bed but willing to listen, for he had some personal problems. The state courts had been meddling in real-estate assessments in Albany, which are carefully adjusted to favor O'Connell friends and punish O'Connell enemies. Democrat Dan found that annoying. Furthermore, if & when the state took over rent control, O'Connell would have another problem: the Albany staff of the Federal Housing Expediter, which happens to be stuffed with O'Connell men, would...
...case, the O'Mahoney Committee's majority report-and Bob Taft's proposals-are sure to supply plenty of ammunition for Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, a self-styled trustbuster. Next month, Celler's House judiciary subcommittee will hold still another hearing to see just how heejus the steel monsthers really...