Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican or a Democrat. I'm just a musician very grateful that at last there is a man in Washington is thinking seriously about this need," he said...
Then, in 1951 the voters tossed the G.O.P. rascals out. elected as mayor Democrat Joseph S. Clark (now a U.S. Senator), who was succeeded by Democrat Richardson Dilworth. now a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. Out of power, the regular Republican organization sank into decrepitude-and its showing in the 1960 presidential election was dramatic evidence of its abysmal state...
...obligation and gratitude that will be useful on election day. Says Hamilton: "We perform every conceivable kind of service.'5 Adds Meehan: "Everything from fixing a traffic ticket to getting a son out of the Army." The G.O.P.'s failure to make a dent in the Democratic control of Philadelphia during the past eleven years might suggest to Meehan and Hamilton that their approach is wrong, that what present-day voters want from a political party is not ticket fixing but good government. But Meehan and Hamilton blame the G.O.P.'s weakness in Philadelphia on the loss...
...face of indifference, it seems unlikely that any Democratic candidate will win the primary majority in May, and the top two will have to fight it out in a June runoff. The eventual winner will face Jack Cox, 41, an oil-equipment executive and a leading Democrat himself until he was defeated by Daniel in the 1960 primary. With that, Cox jumped the party to become a Republican and run for Governor this year...
...hearty, pipe-smoking man of 54, Cambridge-born Tom Eliot was never much of a proper Bostonian anyway. A son of Samuel A. Eliot, the famed Unitarian minister, he pronounced himself a Democrat at the age of ten. He alone voted for Woodrow Wilson in a class poll at Browne and Nichols School, and after earning a magna cum laude in government at Harvard in 1928 and a Harvard law degree in 1932, he enlisted in F.D.R.'s New Deal.* As a Labor Department lawyer, Blueblood Democrat Eliot helped arbitrate the San Francisco general strike in 1934. As general...