Word: democratism
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...immediate purposes of France and of most Frenchmen in France, that fact makes nonsense of all the questions about De Gaulle. Is he a democrat? A Fascist? A megalomania with an appetite for personal power, whatever the label? A natural born, latter-day First Consul-a Fourth Napoleon? Tough old Rightist Republicans like Louis Marin, newly arrived in London after a close call with the Gestapo, throw back their heads and roar when apprehensive Britons ask if France is ready to accept dictatorship (meaning De Gaulle's) after four years of Nazi rule...
...Hollywood last week Democrat John M. Costello, no friend of union labor but an able legislator, went down to defeat in the California primaries. He was the third member of the Dies Committee to be eliminated in four weeks. Crowed a California C.I.O. newspaper: "The Dies Committee scoreboard today read: 3 down...
...West Virginia, bumptious Democrat Rush Holt, onetime "Boy Senator," and pious, poker-playing Republican R. J. Funkhouser, millionaire manufacturer of "America's No. i Heel" (TIME, May 8), both lost to less publicized candidates for the gubernatorial nominations...
...that lonely being, a Democrat in Wall Street. Jimmy Forrestal preached the inevitability of securities regulation, became fast friends with Tommy Corcoran. Harry Hopkins, Bill Douglas. He also urged businessmen to enter government. His own chance came in the summer of 1940, when Franklin Roosevelt picked him as an administrative assistant. Two months later he moved to the Navy...
...President, charging his enemies with "hoping that by driving a dagger through my heart, it might reach a little ways into President Roosevelt." The chief Pepper rival, Jacksonville's Judge J. Ollie Edmunds, said boldly: "I am willing to stand up and be counted as a Southern Democrat." When he and others had stood up and been counted, New Dealer Pepper had kept himself in the Senate by running up a 5,000 majority over four opponents...