Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three: Democrat Albert A. Ridge, onetime bugler in Harry Truman's Battery D; Truman Crony J. Caskie Collet; Republican Albert L. Reeves Sr., whose son defeated Enos Axtell, Harry Truman's nominee to succeed Slaughter, in the November elections...
Germans did not seem inspired to cooperation by the creation of Bizonia. Recently, at a party rally, bumptious demagogic Social Democrat Kurt Schumacher had shouted: "We Germans don't want to sell ourselves to either side, not for the Potemkin promises of Marshal Zhukov nor for the CARE packages from America." Apparently the Germans were not yet ready to contribute anything to the future of Europe except hard words and the hope that they might translate U.S.-Russian division into German nationalist advantage...
...Dime. If any of this evidence ruffled Democrat May, he did not show it -at least not at first. His defense was ingeniously simple. He was just trying to help the war effort along by helping the Garssons-as he had helped many another war contractor. The checks and cash, he said, were just "campaign contributions," proceeds of private business transactions, funds to pay off notes he had signed to help the Garssons get a little ready cash. He had never made a dime out of the Cumberland Lumber Co. He had posed as Cumberland's owner, he said...
...Wonderful." Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi had resigned from the coalition Cabinet, formed a Cabinet without the left, chiefly because U.S. policy had given him the courage of his convictions, i.e., that a democrat has no business collaborating with Communists. The U.S. put a premium on formation of a non-Communist Cabinet (by holding out the prospect of a commerce and friendship treaty, thawing Italian assets...
...nearly three years of the Grau administration, 58 political murders have been committed; just two men have been arrested and none convicted. After Eddy Chibas' charge that Grau's Commerce Minister played the black market, the Minister resigned. And Grau, the professed democrat, governs by decree just like Batista. He has an alliance with the Communists that all but the Commies deplore. His attempt to seize for the Government the differential between the 1947 and 1946 sugar prices has alienated 50,000 sugar growers and a large part of his Autentico Party. "Never in the Republic...