Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent to Buenos Aires, worked there two years, became fluent in Spanish. By 1921 he was Chief of the Latin-American Affairs Division in Washington, the youngest ever-28. But in 1925 Republican Calvin Coolidge made things so consistently uncomfortable for Democrat Sumner Welles that he resigned from the Service...
...Paul's Episcopal Church in Kittanning, Pa. (1927-36) ... I take personal responsibility for having introduced the new prayer in Mr. Gilpin's home parish. But let Mr. Gilpin recall 1) that Mr. Hoover was President at that time, and 2) that I was a Democrat in politics in Kittanning at that time...
...have long insisted that Attorney General Jackson would not go to the Court unless he went as Chief Justice, but last week there was no mistaking Robert Jackson's elation. Chief reservation about him was that (as his intemperate campaign speeches revealed) he lacked the judicial temperament. A Democrat, a mild Wilsonian radical, Robert Jackson was the foremost legal strategist of the New Deal, who had carried out a welter of partisan tasks for the President. But it was agreed that he was mellowing, and it was considered likely that the Court would have as much influence...
...Philadelphia Republican, Manuel Fox joined the U.S. Tariff Commission in 1923. Closer to the New Deal than many a good Democrat, he became vice chairman of the Committee for Reciprocity Information (which is a wailing wall for U.S. industrialists who want to keep their tariff protection) in 1938, next year headed an economic mission to Venezuela. But his China assignment last week was his toughest to date...
...importance of the comparison is that Manager Sloan is a democrat. He is a democrat not only because he is a human, just and generous man, but because he could not operate in any other way. He did not learn democracy in books. His democracy is implicit in his life. It is realistic, practical, unsentimental. His success with General Motors was that he literally made his management a democracy of brains, for he knows that democracy is the vital fluid of great corporate organizations, holding their personnel from top to bottom in a creative balance to each other. When...