Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arkansas Ozarks last week, "that if Wilbur Mills requested it, I'd be glad to come down here and sing Down by the Old Mill Stream. I want to say I am delighted." Kennedy meant what he said. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Arkansas Democrat Mills has powered three of the President's principal pieces of legislation through the House: the tax and trade bills of 1962 and the tax-cut bill now before the Senate Finance Committee...
...Rejected, by an ll-to-4 vote in the Senate Finance Committee, a motion by Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas calling for a speedup in committee hearings on the Administration's $11.1 billion tax-cut bill. Douglas, who asked that hearings begin this week and be limited to four weeks, cried that the motion's defeat was a "crushing blow" to the tax measure. Other Senators thought that the motion had been no more to begin with than an ill-conceived effort to pressure Finance Chairman Harry Byrd and an affront to the chairman's traditional prerogative...
This examination of his policies, suggests why, to many Americans, Republican and Democrat alike, Goldwater seems as radical as Norman Thomas. His fundamental axiom comes straight from 18th and 19th century political lore. From his contention that the government serves only as a guardian of the natural laws of competition follow all his domestic positions. But in foreign policy the benign policeman becomes a strong-armed archangel, a Michael brandishing his flaming sword around the globe, turning deaf ears on the cries of the stricken. Goldwater himself admits that his is not the spirit of the times...
...eating crash venture (see SCIENCE). And further slashes may be in prospect. The subcommittee, reconsidering its vote, wound up in a 4 to 4 deadlock on a later move to pare the appropriation to a bare-bones $4.2 billion. The measure now goes before the full committee, where Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, the chairman, aims to cut out as much...
...Figueres is a compassionate figure. He knows the plight of Spanish America today. "We are a depressed people and depression is worse than war because in war at least there is glory." Latin America, he insists, can not escape revolution. "The days of the Latin conservative are numbered. The democrat or the communist--one can't be sure which--holds the keys to the future of our countries...