Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played tackle at the University of Tennessee, got a law degree from Yale in 1927 and came home to be a successful corporation lawyer in Chattanooga. In 1939 he won a special House election and went to Washington, where he was a fervent liberal Democrat and a devoted inter nationalist who attracted some small notice by his support of the dreamy Atlantic Union plan that proposed a constitutional federation of free nations. But mostly, he was distinguished by his silence...
...What do you do?" interrupted Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore...
Round Two. Nevada's Democratic Governor Grant Sawyer proposed to do away with embarrassing resolutions by the simple expedient of abolishing the resolutions committee. Sawyer's plan carried 33 to 16 on another party-line vote. Not a single Republican voted for the Sawyer plan, and only one Democrat (Alaska's William A. Egan) voted against it. "It has now been made clear," said Rockefeller, "that the Republican Party is the party of civil rights." Later on, Washington's Democratic Governor Albert Rosellini angrily accused Rocky of "using the grave issue of civil rights as ammunition...
...contained in interwoven excerpts from a terrifying Salem witch trial, historical notes on the ill-treatment of American Indians, liberal quotes from the prospectus of Freedomland, U.S.A., and offerings from the views of various Southerners (real and imagined) on the Negro. Among them is one from that conscientious democrat Thomas Jefferson, who concluded, ". . . their inferiority is not the effect, merely, of their condition of life...
...Lack of Commitment. Part of the trouble is with the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill. The top House Democrat, John McCormack of Massachusetts, was long a slashingly effective floor leader, but he has been inhibited by his present role as Speaker. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield is generally conceded to be too nice a fellow to engage in the arm-twisting tactics his job requires...