Word: democratize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heat in the House. Quick to feel the heat were U.S. Congressmen. House Republicans, joined by about a dozen Democrats, squeezed through a "Hoover amendment" which would have sheared OPA of almost all its powers over food, handed them all to the Secretary of Agriculture. Administration Democrats finally rounded up their absent members, forced a reconsideration. But at a boiling session, to the howls of "We want meat," the Republican dissident-Democrat combination forced through a second amendment giving the Secretary of Agriculture unprecedented food control...
...German occupation was not yet completed. But into it she had invited two leaders of the new political forces -Willem Schermerhorn, former Resistance leader, who had had time to dream up new ideas for The Netherlands while he was a Nazi prisoner, and Willem Drees, Social Democrat and trade union leader...
Expecting a crowd, tall, white-haired Committee Chairman Clifton Alexander Woodrum, a shrewd Virginia Democrat who has wangled many a military appropriation through the House, installed a public address system in the spacious chamber, had a small regiment of usherettes on duty...
...council included a prewar conservative for Lord Mayor, a Catholic Centrist for Food Minister, a Social Democrat as communications director, two Communist members of the pre-Hitler Reichstag, several other leftists...
...least one former Buchenwald prisoner was already engaged in governing post-Nazi Germany. By order of the military government, Herr Doktor X (anonymous under Allied rules) was taken from the concentration camp to become mayor of nearby Weimar. Mild, elderly Dr. X had been a Social Democrat, a secondary-school director, a "passive" anti-Nazi. His first job in Weimar was to purge minor Brown Shirts from minor municipal posts. On May Day he sought to fly the old black, gold and red flag of the Weimar Republic from his city hall. He ransacked the city, but he could find...