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Wellesley (the town) was gerrymandered by Republicans in 1940 to throw its straight-ticket G.O.P. weight into a neutral district, so George R. Kelly '44 will take the stump next fall to see if his Irish-veteran-Harvard background can put him, as a Democrat, into the State House of Representatives...
...Republican, was first asked to run for the legislature against a Democrat named Charley Malone. Gus was horrified. Says he: "Charley was a good friend of mine. As far as I could see, he was doing a good job." But two years later he ran, was elected, has spent 100 days a year in the Iowa legislature ever since. Part of that time he has been chairman of the powerful appropriations committee and has been a member of 15 committees at once...
Since the Democratic and Republican parties alike contain within their ranks arch-conservatives and arch-liberals, since a Congressman's re-election depends not upon his unswerving support of a party program but upon the satisfaction rendered to his constituents and to pressure groups, and since there is no practicable method of enforcing party discipline in Congress, a Senator or Representative is inclined to vote for local interests rather than for national welfare. Illustrative of this unpleasant truth is the success of the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition, which has pounded the Administration's legislative program into an unrecognizable blob...
...confess to you that all of our Presidents have made errors in the discharge of their duties-who doesn't?-but I wish to state that the foreign policy of all of them has been above reproach. Leon Cortes, in the international field, was a true democrat, as befits a President of Costa Rica...
...Special Envoy did not force his opinions. He preferred to state the issues, then let each side express its views. And he always steered the discussion to a specific, written proposal. At the proper psychological moment, he would pour on the catalyzing chemicals of a working democrat...