Word: democratized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With that, half a dozen Senators-including Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey-scrambled from their seats and bolted toward waiting limousines for the one-mile dash to Capitol Hill. About the only Senator left was Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, who, in the words of an envious colleague, "never moved...
...bill's only problem. Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen last week outlined to G.O.P. Senators a clutch of amendments, including one to make compliance with the public-accommodations section voluntary for a year. Several liberal Senators promptly indicated that they might vote against a diluted bill. Cried Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse: "There cannot be any justification of any compromise in a civil rights bill that gives to the Negroes of this country less than complete deliverance under the Constitution of the U.S. If that is the type of bill that is presented for a final vote in the Senate...
...Republican organization could fit "in somebody's hatband." Today there are organizations in 130 of 159 counties. Republicans have elected two city councilmen in Atlanta, another in Augusta, two state representatives, four state senators, and they are contesting several congressional races this fall. All this has gotten the Democrats out of their hammocks. They recently opened their first fulltime state headquarters in Atlanta. "Let's face it," says one Georgia Democrat, "it's the first time we ever...
...TENNESSEE. The G.O.P. does well nationally, but locally it has its problems. Republicans occupy three of Tennessee's nine seats in Congress, and the state has gone Republican in the last three presidential elections. But the party stands little chance of winning either of the Democrat-held Senate seats up for grabs this fall-Albert Gore's and that of the late Estes Kefauver. The death of tough Old Guard Republican Congressman Carroll Reece in 1961 has left a vacuum in statewide leadership that has yet to be filled...
...first time in history, Republicans will contest every one of the state's 23 house seats, and the May 2 G.O.P. primary may produce an attractive senatorial candidate in Houston's George Bush, son of Connecticut's former Senator Prescott Bush, to run against liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough. The Democrats are beginning to react. In Dallas County, where eight of the nine state representatives are Republicans, they are trying to patch up a twelve-year-old feud, have hopes of giving five-term G.O.P. Congressman Bruce Alger a tough fight for reelection...