Word: democratize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat Donnelly came out fighting against unionization of St. Louis' cops by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (A.F.L.), which has quietly but steadily organized police unions in more than 50 U.S. cities...
Senator Briggs, a trained machine politician, dutifully asked the Henry County Democratic Committee for the name of a deserving Democrat for the job. The committee decided on 33-year-old Clyde Smith, a World War II veteran. In due time Smith got his notice of appointment signed by the first assistant postmaster general. He turned his oil business over to his wife, moved into the postoffice...
...made the pots boil was not acting like a candidate at all. He was Fiorello LaGuardia and he was fuming over a foaming glass of beer in Czechoslovakia (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week dumpy Butch LaGuardia, who has been wont to characterize New York City's leading Democrats as "those political bums," bobbed up in the middle of a meaty Democratic stew. No Democrat at all (he is a member of the American Labor Party), he was suddenly a darling of the Democratic bigwigs and a leading contender for their U.S. Senate nomination...
...Kansas, the Republican nomination for governor fell to able Representative Frank Carlson, congressional tax expert. His November opponent: Harry H. Woodring, ex-Secretary of War, whose lambasting of state dry laws may fatten the normally slim chances of a Kansas Democrat...
...head of the Senate's dirt-moving Mead Committee, New York's tall, toothy Democratic Senator James M. Mead was providing a dual service for his party-whether it liked it or not. He was giving himself a hastily assembled reputation as a guardian of political morals, a device which might well be useful when he ran against ex-gangbuster Tom Dewey in New York's gubernatorial race. He was also giving Democrats the chance to say "we policed ourselves" in the event the country went Republican next autumn. Having tossed Andy May's reputation into...