Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty years ago last week a tall, hard-working Democrat of 38 was in the midst of a speechmaking campaign throughout the U. S. No vast crowds attended his meetings, no swarms of reporters hung on his words. The atmosphere was heavy with the powerful speeches of William Borah and Henry Cabot Lodge, and only a fitful flickering came from the Democratic Presidential nominee, James Cox of Ohio. The illness of Woodrow Wilson filled Washington with rumors; war-sickened citizens wanted above all to get back to normal. Nobody paid much attention to the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate. He defended...
...Harold M. Lehman, niece by marriage of New York's Democratic Governor Lehman. Said she: "I don't think that being a Democrat and not voting for Roosevelt is news this year...
...William Church Osborn, attorney, lifelong Democrat, onetime Roosevelt adviser...
...Willkie rallies have been scheduled by the Club, though the speakers have not as yet been chosen. Frazier hopes that Senator Edward Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska, who has come out for Willkie, will speak at the largest of the meetings...
Directed by the N. E. A.'s Educational Policies Commission to make a firsthand survey, six educators spent last fall and winter traveling the U. S., studying closely 90 high schools in 27 States. First thing they had to decide on was a definition of democratic education. They found democracy being taught in many curious ways: at one extreme a principal dictated to his teachers and pupils exactly how a good democrat must act; at the other, a principal let his pupils run riot. The investigators concluded that a democratic school must be democratically managed, must teach pupils their...