Word: democratize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither Mr. Truman nor any other regular Democrat was anxious to give U.S. voters this judicial opportunity. Mr. Truman would be politicking for his life from now on. So would colleagues like Senator Alben Barkley, who was in a Cincinnati hotel room last week (see cut), getting ready to cross the river and beat his native Kentucky bushes for his fellow Democrat, Kentucky senatorial candidate John Y. Brown (see Political Notes). Far & wide, Democrats and Republicans were at the work they know best: politics...
...sent City Solicitor Anne X. Alpern to the courts to get an injunction forbidding the strike on the ground that the city's welfare was involved. One minute before George's deadline, Judge Walter P. Smart, a Democrat, forbade the strike, ordered top officials of the company's complicated hierarchy* to sit down with George. But the injunction only postponed the showdown. George called the injunction a mere "scrap of paper," struck anyhow...
...Angeles, some 1,100 "associates" of the leftish Nation gathered in expectation of hearing a stirring rallying cry to the Wallace banner by Will Rogers Jr., their Senate hopeful. What they heard was an anemic speech in which Democrat Rogers sidestepped any mention of Wallace, Jimmy Byrnes or Harry Truman. Many a hot Hollywood liberal went away angered...
Both national and Wisconsin Democratic leaders were in a swivet. Should they read Bobrowicz out of the party-and thus confess their error? Should they keep him and try to brazen it out? Or should they piously denounce Communism and let it go at that? Most forthright reaction came from Representative Andrew Biemiller, Democrat from the adjoining 5th District. He was against letting Communists crawl into office disguised as Democrats...
Died. Charles Oscar Andrews, 69, old-line Democrat, onetime Florida circuit judge, Townsend Plan booster, U.S. Senator from Florida since 1936; of a heart ailment; in Bethesda...