Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern institution, the press can be blamed for hamstringing integration and encouraging mob rule in the recent past. To be sure, a handful of Southern papers have been preaching moderation for many years: the Atlanta Constitution, the Arkansas (Little Rock) Gazette, the Charlotte Observer, Greenville, Mississippi's Delta Democrat-Times, the Nashville Tennessean. However, says Atlanta Constitution Publisher Ralph McGill, "the Southern press in general abdicated its responsibility to its own principles. This abandonment of responsibility was one of the massive contributions to violence...
Whipped in the Field. When the Civil War broke out, Ben Butler was New England's most famous criminal lawyer, a raspy-voiced Democrat who had long crusaded for shorter working hours and the secret ballot. Lincoln needed all the Democratic trimmings he could get in the war, and since Butler was incidentally a brigadier of the state militia, Lincoln dispatched him to Maryland, which was threatening to secede. Butler seized Annapolis and then, in a lightning move by night, occupied mutinous Baltimore...
Against Miss Nancyism. He was better at politics. After the war, he shifted allegiances from Democrat to radical Republican, was elected to Congress. In eleven years in the House, he espoused woman suffrage, currency reform and the eight-hour day. He stood firmly opposed to what he called "Miss Nancyism"-in this case a sympathetic approach to Reconstruction of the South. With his sharp lawyer's mind, he was a natural choice for prosecutor when the Congress tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson. Caustic and too clever by half in many people's opinion, Butler attacked Johnson...
...Arkansas Democrat James William Fulbright is a professional man of the world. Chairman of the great Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is widely traveled, points with vast pride to the Oxford degree that he won as a Rhodes scholar, is father of the scholarship plan that bears his name and has enabled 24,000 Americans to widen their horizons in studies abroad...
McGrath's replacement is, like McGrath, a Democrat, and in this lies the subtle insidiousness of Volpe's action. Volpe has evidently bowed not to the spoils system, but to the organized power of politicians of both parties--the sheriffs--whose main function, with some exception, has been squeezing their discredited county houses of correction for every cent available. Volpe has firmly established that the sheriffs of the Commonwealh tell the governor what...