Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights bill. Hearings on the Administration-sponsored measure started in the House Rules Committee, whose canny old chairman, Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, 80, opposes the bill in its entirety. Peering owlishly above the top of his spectacles, "Judge" Smith labeled the bill "as full of booby traps as a dog is of fleas." He hooted happily at Brooklyn's zealous Emanuel Celler, whose House Judiciary Committee had already cleared the civil rights bill. It had, said Smith, been "railroaded" through the committee...
Circulation 225,000 mornings. 329,000 Sundays. Independent-Democrat. Has supported Democrats for President since...
...Cleveland Bar Association's candidate for the municipal bench, it asked its readers to write in the name of an unknown young lawyer whom the paper preferred. The young lawyer won. If the Press likes a politician, it can boost him into almost any office. Frank Lausche, a Democrat, rose from Cleveland mayor to Ohio Governor to U.S. Senator on Press support. If the Press doesn't like a politician, the whole city soon finds out. Before an election last November, the Press's rundown of candidates identified one aspiring city councilman as "an admitted tax cheat...
...defeated 40-year-old Peter J. Cloherty by an unofficial margin of about 2,100 to 900, according to Long headquarters. He will be sworn into the legislature in a few days and will serve until January, 1965. The special election was held to fill the unexpired term of Democrat William F. Joyce, who was killed in an accident in October...
...Brighton seat has been vacant since the death of Rep. William F. Joyce, a Democrat, in an automobile accident in October...