Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support of the President's campaign to retain foreign aid to Poland and Yugoslavia. But he has crossed Jack Kennedy 6ften in recent months, and in fact, has voted pro-Kennedy only 59% of the time. Still, some people regard him as an easy-money, easy-credit Democrat...
Mares & Medicare. Moving his rig into the Senate, Kerr quickly struck a gusher as a man who could talk at any length on any subject. He also had, briefly, even higher ambitions. In 1952 Kerr started a drive for the Democratic Presidential nomination, lasted through one roll call at the convention. "It would appear," he said later, "that the people did not realize what a superior product was being offered them." Mainly, he is noted in the Senate for his pungent rhetoric. For years he has sparred with Illinois' doughty Democrat Paul Douglas. In 1958, as Protectionist Kerr...
When the news of the successful shot reached Washington, Congressmen debating the farm bill in the House burst into applause. California Democrat George P. Miller exultantly called it "one of the greatest breakthroughs in recent defense development." The Army brass who oversee the Nike-Zeus program were jubilant. But just as the Pentagon had taken Khrushchev's boast calmly, so too it restrained its own reaction to the Nike-Zeus success. As far as the Defense Department was concerned, it was merely "part of a continuing development series"-and Secretary Robert S. McNamara had his doubts that it would...
...born Anthony Celebrezze in the Cabinet, said Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte, one of a dozen Italian-Americans in the House, Kennedy "has solidified his position with the Italian-Americans. If they had any feelings against him for anything he's done, this will overcome it." Added Rhode Island Democrat John O. Pastore, the only Italian-American ever to serve in the Senate: "It is a matter of pride and prestige." To Kennedy, it is also a matter of votes. In no fewer than 125 congressional districts, Italian-Americans account for 3% of the vote. Heavy urban concentrations...
...does not own (but wishes he did): the New York Times. Newhouse papers disagree not only with one another but with the proprietor. Newhouse himself favors integration, but not to the point of rebuking the publisher of his Birmingham, Ala., paper, the News, which is rabidly racist. A registered Democrat, Newhouse voted for Kennedy in 1960; eight of his papers endorsed Nixon...