Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help me God," the tall, white-haired Democrat from South Carolina told the House in an emotion-choked voice, "we are going to have a follow-on bomber if it kills me. If I live, I am determined to get my nation a bomber." It was Lucius Mendel Rivers in the kind of histrionic performance to be expected during a tense debate. But there was no debate. When the Armed Services Committee chairman was finished, the House gave him a standing ovation and voted 356 to 2 in favor of his bill authorizing $931 million more than the Administration...
When the party first nominated him for Congress in 1946, it was in a West Side Democratic stronghold that had not elected a Republican since 1920. When the party nominated him for state attorney general in 1954, he was given scant chance against a Democrat whose name had special magic in New York ?Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. He was the only Republican winner on the state ticket. When Javits sought the senatorial nomination in 1956, the party's conservatives did their best to block him. He finally got the nomination, after Millionaire John Hay Whitney issued an ultimatum...
Challenged in 1948 by Democrat Paul O'Dwyer, the mayor's brother, Javits flooded the district with pamphlets, a comic book that showed him disarming a deranged gunman and saving the neighborhood (pure fantasy), even a brochure in Armenian for the handful of voters who spoke the language. He won by a bare 1,873 votes. It was never quite as harrowing again. In 1950, his margin rose...
...them all?at least since Hubert Humphrey departed. "He knows the facts on everything," says Marion?and he can summarize them in a few thousand choice words at a moment's notice. Back in 1961, Javits was orating on an immigration bill that he considered unjust when Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore tried to gain the floor. "Let me finish," pleaded Javits. Pastore looked up at the chamber's high ceiling, rolled his eyes dramatically and moaned: "The Senator never finishes...
...Manhattan's polyglot 19th District, Democrat Leonard Farbstein, a moderate on the war, seeks nomination for a sixth term but faces a rough scrap with City Councilman Theodore Weiss, who demands an end to all bombing in Viet Nam and a U.S. ceasefire...