Word: democratism
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History may record the name of W. Forbes Morgan as one of the great pillars of the Democratic Party. Last year Mr. Morgan, the Democrats' national treasurer, tried a new method of raising Democratic dollars. Last week that method was used again, to raise funds to reduce the $430,000 Democratic campaign deficit. From coast to coast 1,262 Victory Dinners were held. To every dinner where the price was $5 a plate or more, the Democratic Speakers Bureau dispatched a Senator, a Congressman or other notable Democrat, the rank of the speaker being roughly proportioned to the price...
...would be the consensus of Americans that the present war represents a conflict between two totalitarian philosophies, either of which sits ill on democrat's stomach. Yet the names of the speakers makes certain that tonight's discussion will be more of a loyalist rally than a forum of debate. Further, the sponsors believe that the charged oratory will facilitate mulcting the audience of its coppers to improve the efficiency of loyalist machine-gunners. The Student Union has thus committed itself and its hearers to a certain set of preconceived ideas, to a "cause" which, however, emotionally satisfying, is hardly...
...people ever recognize their Dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. . . . Since the great American tradition is freedom and democracy you can bet that our dictator, God help us! will be a great democrat, through whose leadership alone democracy can be realized. And nobody will ever say 'Help to him or 'Ave Caesar' nor will they call him 'Führer' or 'Duce.' But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike blat of 'O. K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief...
...seemed likely that China's Dictator would soon take a walk for the first time in ten years down Moscow's side of the street as a "Widest Democrat...
Texas needs money for a $15,000,000 deficit and increased running expenses. Moreover, a number of Texas legislators have it in for the sulphur companies, particularly for Texas Gulf, whose $46,000-per-year director of public relations, Roy Miller, was Texas finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee in the last campaign. Sulphur and other big Texas industries spent a deal of effort on their favorite candidates for the Legislature, many of whom were defeated in the primaries. This fact has not been forgotten by the winners, notably by San Antonio's quick-tongued little State Senator...