Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only new development came in the form of a story in the Arkansas Democrat, a moderate paper veering toward a segregationist position. In a copyrighted story, the Democrat said that Governor Faubus would call a special session of the Arkansas legislature "in a matter of hours" to deal with the use of federal troops in Little Rock...
Poland remains far from being, however, a democrat's paradise. Compared to a New England town meeting, it would still look almost as bad as the Soviet Union. Decisions are of course, made from the top, without approval or consent of the majority. Even though jamming of foreign broadcasts has been stopped, censorship is still very much in effect in the press and radio. Brzezinski reports that toward the end of his stay in Poland, there was a danger sign of increasing censorship, as he learned that a statement of Cardinal Wyszynski had been repressed...
When balding, bespectacled Richard Lewis Neuberger hove into the U.S. Senate as Oregon's junior Senator in 1955, a new team was born. Capitol Hill sensed that Democrat Neuberger and Republican -turned -Independent -turned -Democrat Senator Wayne Morse were as ideologically alike as two juicy Oregon apples, quickly dubbed the pair "Morseberger." Last week there were signs that the Morseberger was beginning to crumble. Both Senators denied reports that they were feuding. But in the same breath both admitted that they were more and more seeing eye to eye on less and less...
...lead was piling up on election night, Senator-elect Proxmire, already packing his bag, telephoned Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who was celebrating his 49th birthday, and made a statement that no Democrat or Republican in Washington would challenge. "Senator Johnson." he said, "I've got the biggest birthday present...
...earlier won the unhappy practice-session distinction of dropping ten straight forward passes from Yale's All-America Clint Frank. He got a master's degree (1940) and a liberal bent from Harvard Business School ("I didn't raise my boy to be a Democrat," says father Proxmire. "Harvard's where it happened"), put in six months as a trainee for Wall Street's J.P. Morgan & Co., five years in the U.S. Army (Stateside) in World War II, decided to leave business for politics because "the area of responsibility and opportunities were no longer...