Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress, the liberals of both parties finally have enough strength to override the Southern Democrat-Republican coalition which has dominated Congress for the last 20 years...
...Democrat Vance Hartke took over the Senate seat vacated by the retiring Republican Sen. Edward Jenner by defeating Republican Harold Handley...
...other side of the continent, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland is expected to lose to Democrat Pat Brown. Should Rockefeller win in New York while his party is losing in California, he will loom as a strong contender for the Presidential nomination...
Died. Henri Béraud, 73, French writer, toxic reactionary, anti-democrat, antiMason, anti-Semite, Anglophobe, 1922 winner of the Prix Goncourt for The Martyrdom of the Obese, a novel; on the island of Ile de Ré, France. Author of a 1935 essay entitled Should England Be Reduced to Slavery?* Béraud was a principal contributor to the mixed-up weekly newspaper Gringoire, went right on pouring out his enmity toward both Britain and the Free French-as well as the Nazis -during World War II. Tried after the liberation for collaborating in word if not in deed...
...behind-the-scenes power at the very moment that her banker father was tumbling to his fall. In the days of the Terror, she enthusiastically switched sides and saved many an innocent from the guillotine. Long accustomed by then to swaying men, she hoped to make a good democrat out of Napoleon, but he snubbed her. Among other things, he resented her trying to interview him when he was "naked in his bathtub" and positively bridled when she protested: "Genius...