Word: democratize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tired House, Oklahoma's young, progressive A. S. Mike Monroney, Democrat, teamed with Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen to push the bill which had been fought through the Senate by Wisconsin's Robert La Follette Jr. In last week's maneuvers they lost the provisions for legislative policy committees for both minority and majority parties, and for an executive-legislative council. The reason: Speaker Sam Rayburn wanted to keep the four-man Democratic policy committee which meets with the President every Monday morning...
...France, the Communists were demanding steep wage increases as the price of their cooperation in a regime pledged to curb inflation. Said Christian-Democrat Assembly Leader Gronchi: "They get all the advantages of being in the Government (four Cabinet posts) while their colleagues on the outside get all the advantages of waging a campaign of opposition...
President Truman presided at the press conference, but Politician Truman made the news. Like a man itching to peel off his coat and get into a backyard brawl, he announced that he was out to beat a Democrat who had obstructed his policies in Congress. His target: conservative Representative Roger Caldwell Slaughter of Missouri's Fifth District, onetime neighbor of County Judge Harry Truman and now a candidate for renomination in the August 6 primary (TIME, July...
Dally Double. The President had another item of note for Democrats: he and Mrs. Truman were going home to Independence to vote in the primary.* Democrat Truman had no other firm political plans. But, if it was necessary to help the Party, he would also take the stump in the campaign this fall...
Many a loyal Administration Democrat figured that Politician Truman could not afford to risk another blow such as he suffered last week in Senator Burton K. Wheeler's defeat. Gloomed one Democrat with a deep, professional interest in his party's fortunes: "I don't know why the Boss had to get himself mixed up in that one (the Montana primary). But you can bet your salary we're going to try to steer him away from any such foolish moves in the future...