Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After months of grumbling about his free spending and high living, the U.S. House of Representatives last week got around to doing something about Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. The House cut Adam's allowance...
...took six ballots for Thompson, a Democrat, to overcome opposition to his re-election. This was in spite of the large Democratic majority (150 to 90) in the House...
...curb filibusters. Everyone knew that the effort did not have a chance; in the event, it cost a month of talkfest before it was handily defeated. Next, following the lead of President Kennedy, the liberals backed a plan to pack the Finance Committee headed by Virginia's conservative Democrat Harry Byrd. The idea was that a Finance Committee increased by two liberals would help in the passage of Kennedy's tax and medicare programs. Kennedy himself, told he could not win, tried to call his followers off. But the Senate liberals paid no heed, insisted on bringing...
...admonition: "Think of Arkansas first in all that you do." That was in 1955, and since then Millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller, a transplanted New Yorker, has certainly paid heed to Orval's words. In fact, he has perhaps done too well at helping Arkansas redeem itself from poverty. For Democrat Faubus is now trying to oust Republican Rockefeller from the A.I.D.C. chairmanship...
Died. Robert LeRoy Cochran, 77, three-term governor of Nebraska, a slender, conservative Democrat, who was unwillingly pushed into the 1934 gubernatorial campaign from his post as state engineer, won a close election and so surprised the voters with his calm, sensible administration that they sent him back for two more terms; after a stroke; in Lincoln...