Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laws that would enhance his own riches. He could be gentle; once, when a longtime Negro houseman was dying, Kerr sat for hours at the bedside, holding his hand in deep grief. But Kerr could also be brutal: in a Senate committee meeting, he once goaded Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas into a fury, then challenged Douglas to a fist fight-even though Douglas has a crippled arm as a result of World War II wounds...
...what was then Indian territory, worked as a salesman and schoolteacher, passed the bar after clerking in an Ada law office. In 1929, he joined with his brother-in-law to start a shaky drilling company that eventually became the $200 million Kerr-McGee corporation. Kerr entered Democratic politics as a fund raiser and spokesman for the oil and gas industries, was elected Governor in 1942, and went to the Senate in 1948. He became the second-ranking Democrat, behind Virginia's Byrd, on the Senate Finance Committee. As such, he last year helped push through much of President...
...drug companies were not accustomed to being summoned to Washington for contributions. Their industry had only recently been berated for the high price of drugs by a Senate subcommittee headed by Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver. One major drug firm has a price-fixing case pending in the Justice Department; two others are under investigation by a federal grand jury in New York, one of which is also under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission...
Hounded out of Cuba in 1958 by Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Bosch did not return when Dictator Castro took power. "I don't say I knew he was a Communist." says Bosch. "But I felt he was not a democrat. I was afraid of what might happen...
...competitive occultist, Clay R. Pollan, told his readers to "heed good advice." Before the 1956 presidential campaign, Constella-the nom de plume for a sometime poet named Shirley Spencer - rashly predicted that Eisenhower would not be a candidate for re-election and that the election would go to a Democrat, and then named him: Averell Harriman...