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Word: democratized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about $200 million out of the bill. Candidate Taft, admitting that his stand was "unwise politically," pleaded for Congress to go slow on public spending at a time when foreign aid and military commitments were making heavy demands on the Treasury and the nation's economy. One Democrat-Virginia's Harry Byrd-joined him, warned of deficits and of "an increase in taxes which will shake the private-enterprise system to its very foundations." Kansas' Republican Clyde Reed called the bill "an outrageous pork barrel," charged that most of the Senators had put projects into it regardless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Pork Chops & Bacon | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Later, she darted off to address workers in Naples. "They wept and threw their arms around me because I wasn't selling the Marshall Plan or telling them how to vote," she reported on her return. "They acted as though I were the last American democrat . . . We've become the old country when we ought to be at the peak of our youth and beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Women of the World | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Longest-sitting Democrat: Tennessee's McKellar (32 years). Alltime recordholder: Wyoming Republican Francis D. Warren, who served a total of 37 years between 1890 and his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Finis for Capper | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Died. Arthur Ault, 75, portly, plain-spoken editor of the Lamar, Mo., Democrat; of a heart ailment; in Lamar. He fattened his national reputation (TIME, July 8, 1946) with such unlarded local reporting as "George Phillips is back in the Barton County jail . . . drunk as a lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Senate Office Building gymnasium, Maine's 60-year-old Republican Owen Brewster and Louisiana's 56-year-old Democrat Allen Ellender struck a pose for a traditional springtime picture: statesmen keeping in trim for the cruel tussle with their responsibilities. Ellender, a statesman in the Huey Long tradition, recalled that he had posed for the same kind of picture another spring with Henry Agard Wallace, sighed wistfully: "I should have knocked Wallace's block off when I had the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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