Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concluded," Moley writes, "that Roosevelt was determined to ask for a vote of confidence - not for something that he proposed to do in the future, but for himself." The New Deal's new direction appalled Moley. "Roosevelt substantially reversed the policies of the Democratic Party. The old Democratic affirmation of the constitutional integrity of state and local authority was abandoned. The Federal Government intervened, first slowly but later massively in areas hitherto reserved to the states and the communities. I could not remain a Democrat when the nature and objectives of that party had so completely departed from...
...happy -and to pour for the legislators, who were at tending a forum on government at the University of Georgia. As a result of a decision handed down last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Georgia legislature in January will bestow the state's governorship on either Democrat Maddox, 51, or Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, neither of whom received a majority in the November general election. The likely outcome is that the nod will go to Maddox, even though Callaway outpolled him on Election Day by 3,538 votes...
West Germany's Christian Democrat parliamentarian Helmut Blumenfeld went further. Said he: "For the first time since World War II, there is the possibility of establishing peaceful and lasting, if not permanent, international order in Europe." And for the first time in its history, as NATO met last week, the talk was more about détente than defense...
Franz Josef Strauss, 51, the barrel-shaped boss of the Christian Democrats' autonomous Bavarian branch, took on perhaps the most difficult portfolio of all: finance. Former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's government in effect fell over the refusal of his Free Democrat coalition partners to go along with needed tax increases. But Strauss has less balky coalition mates. As a start toward wiping out the $1.5 billion deficit for the 1967 budget, Strauss did exactly what Erhard had wanted to do: increased taxes on gasoline and tobacco. The new political alignment made all the difference: Strauss's bill...
...Supreme Court has slashed through the Gordian knot of legal complications entangling the election of Georgia's next governor by ruling that the state legislature can choose between Democrat Lester G. Maddox and Republican Howard H. (Bo) Callaway. The deadlock, created when neither candidate gained an absolute majority in the general election, must be broken. But the way in which the Court has decided to settle the contest means that the candidate with fewer votes may emerge the winner, a result hardly consistent with some of the Court's other recent rulings...