Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Wagner uproar could have been heard in Schenectady. "This is a very, very black day in the tradition and history of the legislature!" cried Brooklyn Democrat Irwin Brownstein. "What is happening here wasn't created in the senate. It was in the Governor's office and at Gracie mansion [Wagner's official residence]." Buffalo Democrat Frank Glinski roared: "Hitler burned down the Reichstag because he couldn't get majorities! Somebody may put a match to this place soon, too." All to no avail: with all 25 Republican senators joining 15 Democrats, the senate elected Zaretzki...
...been a long while since a Dixie Democrat expressed such sentiments in the House of Representatives. The fact that Charles Longstreet Weltner, 37, a Representative from Georgia, did so last week was partly a testament to his integrity. Even more, it was a result of the South's changing political climate, in which the Negro vote is increasingly important. Weltner represents an Atlanta district, and its 105,000 Negroes-of whom 57,000 are registered voters-are the reason why he is in Congress...
...Democrat Weltner defeated Democrat Davis, went to Washington and, after the fashion of Congressmen in what used to be the one-party South, settled down for a long stay. Last year came a test of conscience-and New South politics. In meeting it, Weltner became the only Deep South Democratic Representative to vote for final passage of the civil rights bill. Letters -more than 1,000 of them-poured in from outraged white constituents, and Weltner's political career was imperiled. "I caught hell," he recalls. Although Georgia went for Goldwater, Weltner was saved by Atlanta's Negro...
Next day, with 46 Republicans joining 35 Democrats, the assembly elected Wagner Man Travia as speaker. Again there were shouts of protest. Complained Brooklyn Democrat Bertram Podell: "He had the votes right in his pocket-the fellow down in city hall. It's a disgrace." Shouted another: "What you Republicans are doing is evil! It's wrong! It's immoral!" When Travia ascended to the speaker's rostrum, many anti-Wagner Democrats turned their backs on him; his main rival, Brooklyn's Stanley Steingut, stalked out without pausing to offer congratulations...
...Mary Scranton, 46, wife of Pennsylvania's Republican Governor, found to her sorrow when she submitted a $1,554 bill to the state for some rust-patterned draperies made for her husband's reception room by a Harrisburg decorator. "Absolutely illegal," sniffed the auditor general, a Democrat, refusing to pay on grounds that she hadn't asked for sealed bids. "A bargain is a bargain, and politics is politics," retorted Mary in a note posted in the capitol pressroom. How right you both are, Governor Bill tactfully concluded and, since he may have to ante up himself...