Word: liberale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Harrison Williams suggested the other night that the record of the first session of the eighty-sixth Congress was as liberal as could be expected in a society dominated by complacency with the present.
The failure of the liberals--their direct defeat in housing, airport, education, and labor legislation along with their inability to inaugurate any comprehensive program--brings up the perennial questioning of the organization of Congress and the major parties, but it also calls into question the liberal ideology. Complaints that complacency...
According to Williams, the key man in the NDEA loyalty issue is Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D, Tex.), who voted for recommittal. If Johnson decides to back the repeal measure, perhaps in an attempt to gain Northern liberal support for a possible Presidential bid, the bill's prospects...
Does each student know how his senators voted on the Kennedy-Clark amendment? Does each student's home town realize the implications of a loyalty oath? Would home town newspapers print articles by Harvard students? Where is the Harvard Liberal Union? What connections do they have with the liberal unions...
Earl G. Latham '30, visiting professor of Government, in a brief talk preceding Williams' address, questioned whether Congress had provided the decisive liberal leadership which was predicted when a large margin of Democrats was elected in 1958. Williams later held that the constant complaint of "inflation" put a damper on...