Word: democratically
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Republicans had watched the President's entire maneuver with a wary and disappointed eye. In the sacking of inept Louis Johnson and the appointment of Marshall, a political issue was being snatched right from under their noses. When Virginia's Harry Byrd, a Democrat but no Administration man, rose to plead for the amendment ("I challenge any man who opposes this nomination to propose a better one"), Republicans leaped...
Saltonstall and nine other Republicans joined 37 Democrats in voting to amend the act. The real surprise was that 20 Republicans and one Democrat (Nevada's McCarran) held out. The House, after almost as bitter an argument, passed the amendment by 220 to 105 (100 Republicans, five Democrats...
...angry questions were summed up into one by Congressman Anthony F. Tauriello, a freshman Democrat from Buffalo: Why were the armed forces unprepared for war despite Louis Johnson's assurances to the contrary? Johnson, said Tauriello, had "lost the confidence of the American people" and should resign...
Missouri's gnarled, antique Democrat Clarence Cannon cried that there was no danger of attack and that, if there were, Government agencies should be moved to places like Chicago, Houston or Denver. Nebraska's G.O.P. Congressman A. L. Miller characterized the plan as a boondoggle cooked up to save the necks of 40,000 "Washington waffle-bottoms." This moved Maryland's Republican Edward T. Miller to a counterproposal: simply fire the 40,000 and use their wages to build a radar fence around...
Died. Edward H. Moore, 78, onetime schoolteacher who made millions in Oklahoma oil, became a U.S. Senator (1943-49); in Tulsa. A lifelong Democrat who turned against the New Deal, Moore was elected to the Senate (his first and last public office) on the Republican ticket, as an outspoken champion of rugged individualism. He was the first Republican elected Senator in Oklahoma since...