Word: democratize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...enough. But the heady fumes of politics seeped up his nose and changed him for good. After his defeat, he looked back on the mayoralty campaign morosely, convinced that he might have won if Welch had let him talk. So he filed for Lieutenant Governor of the state; a Democrat, he was not a bit surprised when he was elected in the Roosevelt landslide...
...Little Fellow. Colonel Starling was a lifelong Democrat, but his great love was for wry, sly, spry Republican Calvin Coolidge. It began during his first walk in Washington with "the little fellow." They stopped in front of a Martha Washington candy shop. "Here the President spoke for the first time since greeting me. I had presumed he was busy with deep thoughts. . . . 'Do they make good candy here?' he said. Before I could pull myself together and reply he answered himself: 'They must-my wife likes it.' " Crossing a street the President yanked Starling...
...million people-and with them a sense of responsibility which, while often laggard and defective, was nevertheless more genuine than that displayed by any other colonial nation. Socialist Bevin faces the rising tide of Asiatic nationalism; 1946 is likely to see another major crisis in India's ferment. Democrat Bevin faces a Russia which has become the strongest power on both the Asiatic and European continents and which, by pressing on Britain's lifeline in the Mediterranean, threatens to secure an interior position between the homeland and Britain's vital bases in the East...
...Roosevelt was recognized, Democrat or Republican, Hyde Park or Oyster...
...this activity was an effort on the part of Democrats to oust Republican Governor Earl Warren and his protege in the Senate, young Bill Knowland. While Senator Knowland seemed vulnerable if hit sufficiently hard, no Democrat in his right mind would yet predict shrewd, able Governor Warren's defeat...