Word: democratize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCarran, Democrat of Nevada, described the tragedy as "legalized murder" and demanded enactment of his bill to re-establish the CAA and the Air Safety Board as independent agencies. The Safety Board was abolished and the CAA became a commerce department unit under a presidential reorganization order which became effective last July...
Wilbur Joseph Cash was born in South Carolina in 1901, went to Southern schools and colleges, became a newspaperman, contributed to Mencken's old American Mercury, is now associate editor of the Charlotte, N. C. News. He is a Democrat, a Baptist, an inheritor of the South's tradition. The Mind of the South, his first published book, is in effect a psychoanalysis of his own native land...
...afternoon last week in the House, forthright Representative Stephen Pace of Americus, Ga. decided he had had a bellyful of talk. Up stood Democrat Pace and let fly: "The bill is now in shape to pass in 30 minutes. My hope is that, now that all the rights and powers of Congress are in the hands of a simple majority of Congress, this eternal controversy will...
...present these men are the press sections of the Army and Navy, the National Defense Advisory Commission and other defense agencies. Army's Chief of Staff General Marshall, a flexible and sensible democrat, has steadily supported the view that a healthy army and a healthy press are complementary. Concerned with guarding the Army's truly vital secrets, he has consistently recognized the fact that a free press inevitably makes mistakes and even unwarranted criticisms. Army's press section has grown from four officers, ten clerks to 18 officers, 40 clerks since Aug. 1. Of Marshall...
...example of British feeling that the U.S. is not doing its part in the present war, "The Democrat" a British paper, charges that President Wilson was largely responsible for getting us into this mess. "For money in the U. S. will do anything'" and is even supporting the aggressor, Japan, it says...