Word: democratized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sooner had Erway been designated for the senate job than the Wagner forces started fighting back. Four liberal state senators from New York City charged that Erway was a "Goldwater Democrat" who had voted with the Republicans on occasion, had fought a measure to ban discrimination in public housing. Erway countered the discrimination charge with the feeble defense that he was on excellent terms with his Negro maid, and that during Civil War days his farm had served as a station on the Underground Railroad...
...mess of things but doing it with great flair. Last week, as a Liberal (right-wing) Deputy in the National Assembly, Barzini participated in an Italian reversal of form. After 13 days and 20 frustrating ballots in which no one gained a majority, the Assembly finally elected Social Democrat Giuseppe Saragat, 66, President of Italy. "They picked the best man," said Barzini whimsically, "but in the worst possible...
...very heart of my own beliefs," he once wrote, "is a rebellion against this very process of classifying, labeling and filing Americans under headings: regional, economic, occupational, religious, racial, or otherwise." Back in 1958, he defined himself as "a free man, an American, a United States Senator and a Democrat, in that order," and added, "and there, for me, the classifying stops...
With his gift for compromise, his powers of persuasion, and his wizardry at counting noses-aided, from 1955 on, by ubiquitous little Senate Majority Secretary Bobby Baker-it was not long before Johnson was absolute monarch of the place. He was the most influential Democrat in the nation, stood second in power only to President Eisenhower. According to one of the gags current during that time, a Senate page asked a door attendant, "Have you seen Senator Johnson?" The reply: "I haven't seen anything but a burning bush...
...qualifications for the secretarial job on the Washington staff of Maryland's Senator-elect Joseph Tydings, 36, were pretty impressive. She was an ultraloyal Democrat who had worked seven days a week for Tydings during the election campaign, could type 90 words a minute, take dictation at the stopwatch speed of 100 words per, and seemed a cinch for the job. But a girl can't have everything. It came out that leggy, blonde Mary Ellen Terziu, 23, also moonlighted her nights away as a bunny at the Baltimore Playboy Club. Up went the chances...