Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...background in the field. A lawyer from North Carolina, Murphy has served in Government for 28 years in a wide range of jobs, notably as President Truman's special counsel from 1950 to 1953. During the Senate investigation of the financial shenanigans of Convicted Swindler Billie Sol Estes, Democrat Murphy, then Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's right-hand man, was roundly criticized by Republicans for showing favoritism to Estes, but he emerged from the scandal unscathed after Freeman vouched for his integrity...
Alabama's freshman Congressman William Dickinson, 39, a Democrat-turned-Republican, is an ex-footballer from Montgomery, a onetime state judge, and a former assistant vice president of the Southern Railway System. He likes to make a splash. Last week he splashed mud all over the House floor. But only Dickinson got dirty...
...with CBS brass for several years. A 28-man committee had been set up to approve all news programs, and in 1958 See It Now was dropped. Finally, Murrow gave a speech denouncing the whole industry tor purveying "decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world." A Democrat by leaning, the he left TV in 1961 to take the job of director of the U.S. Information Agency under President Kennedy...
...drumming up guests for one of his $25-a-head "Justice for Powell" cocktail parties, which have helped to raise $16,000 to date. "I'm just," said he, "a poor parish priest." He will be poorer still if Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin has his way. The California Democrat has introduced a bill that would trim the Government salary of Powell's wife Yvette from $18,907 to a mere...
...placed little emphasis on either racial strife or Goldwaterism to explain recent successes and near-misses of Republicans in the South. "Younger citizens are not happy with the many jaded and unimaginative but self-perpetuating Democrat politicians, these 'eternal incumbants,'" he said...