Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's personal effects--his collection of skrimshaw and blackthorn sticks; letters he wrote as a small boy and notes he took during the Cuba missile crisis; his copy of Robert Frost's in a Clearing, inscribed, "I admire you so much I wish I were more of a Democrat than...
...attacked-were concerned about making that same point. The resolution cleared the House with a resounding 416-0 vote after only 40 minutes of debate, but the Senate talked for a full nine hours before approving, 88-2. The only two dissenters were Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening and Oregon's irascible Democrat Wayne Morse, both of whom argued that the resolution was unconstitutional because it amounted to a "predated declaration of war power" normally reserved to Congress...
...prove a point, and they've gone beyond that point. They've gone into areas they shouldn't be in." In St. Louis, Father James Marshall, a young white assistant pastor of St. Bridget's Catholic Church, wrote in a straightforward letter to the Globe-Democrat: "The hatred gushing forth on our city streets is not happening by mere chance. We are now paying the big price for years of planned segregation...
Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Clark, a Rules member who has long advocated Senate reform, did not agree, and he even offered a package of amendments to stiffen the recommendation. Among other things. Clark wanted Senate wives to disclose their earnings. That proposal was defeated 62 to 25. The same fate befell an amendment offered by Delaware Republican John J. Williams, the man who kicked off the Baker investigation last October. Williams wanted Senators' income tax returns included in the disclosure plan. Aghast, his colleagues knocked that idea down...
...NLRB's Frank McCulloch is a strong-minded Illinois Democrat, under whom the board has rarely risen above routine in handling the massive paper work of some 22,000 cases a year involving complaints of unfair labor practice and union jurisdictional disputes...