Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 350 papers carried his opinions. These views infuriated many and often puzzled even his admirers. He called himself a Wilsonian liberal. That brand, he said, was "true liberalism." His positions on domestic affairs generally reflected the right wing of the Republican Party. Though an enrolled Democrat, Lawrence supported the re-election of Hoover in 1932 (because it was "dangerous to change parties in mid-Depression") and stayed with every subsequent Republican candidate...
...must preserve and protect the legitimate sources of power outside the government," the South Dakota Democrat said...
...propaganda have been marshaled against ERA. In Ohio, anti-ERA women handed legislators silver bullets to illustrate their conviction that they can take care of themselves without a constitutional amendment. In Minnesota, opponents tried to bat ERA away by handing out red fly swatters to legislators. In Oklahoma, Democrat John Monks helped defeat the bill by preaching from the Bible. "The good book says a woman should serve her husband," he told his colleagues. Arkansas State Senator Guy Hamilton ("Mutt") Jones put the matter a little differently: "Women are put on this earth to minister to the needs of miserable...
...state legislature is not likely to help either. It is dominated by rural and suburban interests who resent contributing taxes to Detroit's schools, particularly when its school tax rate is less than half that of some suburbs and far below the state average of 26 mills. Snaps Democrat William Copeland of suburban Wyandotte: "I don't see how you can expect me to tax my people for Detroit when they are already paying their fair share for the schools, and Detroit is only paying 15 mills...
Edwin Williams is a Nieman Fellow from the Delta Democrat-Times of Greenville, Miss...