Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...downright pity to see great Americans like Romney, Ike and Dirksen refuse to speak against Barry. Instead of doing what they know is morally right, they jump on Barry's bandwagon for personal rewards. As a Democrat, I congratulate Scranton and Lodge for giving Goldwater a fight...
Fitful Doodling. During its 118¼-day legislative voyage from the House to the Senate and then back to the House again, the bill had been desperately fought all the way. Among its final foes was wily old Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, chairman of the House Rules Committee. At a 6½-hour session last week, Smith used every parliamentary trick to delay committee approval of the Senate-amended measure...
...hearing's first witness was Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which wrote the original version of the bill. Celler read the bill section by section while Smith doodled fitfully. When Celler began enumerating the Attorney General's powers, Smith scribbled cryptically on his note pad: "Atty. Gen. -Czar." When Celler had finished, Mississippi's William Colmer blew up. "If it's not politics," he cried, "then what is behind all this rape of the constitutional and legislative processes? God pity this young republic...
...Yale, which accused his Alma Mater of preaching liberalism and secularism to the exclusion of almost everything else. And in that fall of 1955, the articulate young conservative found the political weather parlous. "Clever intriguers are reshaping both parties in the image of Babbitt gone Social-Democrat," he wrote. The press, he said, was a mess of "New Deal journalism"; conformity, fabricated by "Social Engineers," loomed as "the largest cultural menace in America...
...Senate vote, a $5.2 billion space budget. Before the final vote, a move to chop 10% from the Apollo man-on-the-moon program was narrowly defeated 43 to 38. The surprising strength shown by opponents of the Apollo program, led by Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, indicated that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration may run into trouble when the time comes for Congress to appropriate the actual funds...