Word: democratism
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...Europe today, standers for Democracy have become a subway crush in which everyone gets on the other's feet. Great Democrat Adolf Hitler recently described Germany as ''the perfect Democracy." Great Democrat Joseph Stalin recently gave his Soviet Union what he called "The Most Democratic Constitution in the World," then riveted his dictatorship tighter by the shooting of 13 Old Bolsheviks (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante...
...thinking, there is little likelihood of Congress doing anything rash about it until the President gives the signal. Off the calendar, however, does not mean out of mind. Any mention of the Constitution has become a trigger to set off a discharge of senatorial oratory. Last week an unreconstructed Democrat carelessly pulled the trigger...
...centennial. Once suspended by Union General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler, the Picayune was edited in its palmiest post-Reconstruction days by Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson, who married the paper's publisher and then its business manager when he died. In 1914, the Picayune swallowed the Times-Democrat. The Times-Picayune, whose last great battle was with Huey Long, easily dominates the New Orleans advertising market, owns the evening States and has long called itself "The South's Leading News-paper...
...revamping of the civil service may be camouflage to anchor the present recipients of New Deal patronage. For years no Democrat now in office who gave his all to the campaigns of '32 and '36 would have to worry about bread and butter. Although the suggested department of social welfare consolidates a multitude of agencies, there appears no good reason why Public Works should be rated important enough for a separate department, Terming the Interstate Commerce Commission a "headless, fourth branch of the Government, over which the constitutional Chief Executive has little control," the Brownlow Committee reveals how clearly...
...Bank short $170,000, closed it. Promptly arrested on a Federal warrant charging embezzlement and misapplication of funds was the bank's president. South Dakota's Lieutenant Governor Robert Peterson. This week in Pierre the State Legislature was to meet in special session. Lieutenant Governor Peterson, a Democrat, planned to attend, not preside over the Senate, as he has since 1934, and to turn in his resignation...