Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rider. Besides the irksome presence of such minuscule bills, there was always the danger that sloppy language or slippery shirttail riders would go through unnoticed in the rush. Last week a Senate amendment to deny poverty funds to civil rights rioters was passed - but only after its sponsor, Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd Jr., hurriedly rewrote it on the Senate floor because even he was unable to explain what his original wording meant. Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse cunningly pasted a rider on the higher-education aid bill that, if passed, would grant home rule to the District...
While the new Republican Party is being drained down to its more responsible members, the moderate Democrats and Negroes do not know quite where to turn. Carl Sanders, who is ineligible ot succeed himself as governor, stated succinctly Monday after a European trip, "I am a Democrat: I will support the Democratic candidate." Sanders feels that he must support the party nominee since it was he who stressed party loyalty during Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign...
Samuel Yorty, the Los Angeles mayor who is probably the least reliable yet most ambitious Democrat in the state, has yet to declare publicly for either candidate. In the primary, he showed surprisingly well against Governor Brown, picking up a million votes after little or no campaigning...
Jesse Unruh, the speaker of the State Assembly is, at least on the surface, more cooperatve than Yorty. He is Brown's nominal campaign manager, and next to Brown, the most powerful Democrat in the state...
...Daddy" Unruh would like to be Governor in 1970 and probably would not mind having Brown out of the way; he must figure that voters appalled by four years of Reagan Republicanism will be glad to have a Democrat -- like himself -- back in office...