Word: democratism
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...called attention to the fact that I was a "Democrat," but I have not observed your criticizing any Republican member of the House for doing the same thing. You insinuated, at least, that I was mailing that report free to all my constituents. The fact is that the campaign committee out in California advises me that they prepaid the postage on these reports. However, both you and your readers should know that, as Congressman, I did frank several hundred of these to constituents after paying about $600 to have them printed...
...boat skipper in the Solomons. Said he: "When ships were sinking and young Americans were dying ... I firmly resolved to serve my country in peace as honestly as I tried to serve it in war." His method of serving was to try for Congress as a Democrat from Massachusetts' Eleventh District...
Democracy for Defense. However much the U.S. disclaimed any intention of starting an arms race south of the border, many a sincere Latin American democrat was worried by the prospect of more pistols for Panchito. "The intentions, as almost invariably, are sterling. The effects, deplorable," said one thoughtful Latin American last week. "You equip a dictator's army to modern standards and you provide the dictator with an unfailing instrument to perpetuate his tyranny. Do the same in a fledgling Latin American democracy, and you strengthen the already heady military caste...
...P.A.C. there was no consolation anywhere in California. P.A.C.-backed, fellow-traveling Congressman Ellis Patterson was snowed under for the Democratic Senatorial nomination by Will Rogers Jr., a regular Democrat. Rogers will face conservative Senator William Knowland, G.O.P. choice, in the November finale...
Ruefully, P.A.C. listened to the reactions. Some Democrats were howling indignantly "that P.A.C. had been like a millstone around our neck." Said a Southern California Democrat: "The people have decided that the ultra-left wing is not working in the best interests of our country. It is working selfishly and not in a thoroughly American way. One of these days the C.I.O. and the P.A.C. will have to prove that they do not take orders from outside the United States...