Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then hopes to take on Democrat Carl Hayden, 84, who has represented Arizona in either the U.S. House or Senate ever since it won statehood...
...Research Laboratories, a small pharmaceutical house (a chief product: Adreno-Mist. a relief for asthma). All the while, he has been active in the Protestant Episcopal Church; last year, he was elected to its National Council. Shadegg got into politics in 1938, managing the campaign of a Democratic candidate for Maricopa County sheriff. In 1950 he ran his first statewide campaign-for Hayden, who faced and won a primary fight. "All this time," says Shadegg now, "I was describing myself as an anti-Roosevelt, anti-Truman, anti-New Deal, anti-Fair Deal, Jeffersonian Democrat." Still a nominal Democrat. Shadegg managed...
...House Democrats felt any particu lar enthusiasm for the bill, and Republi cans were determined to make it a party-line issue. Plainly, the Administration needed every vote it could get. As debate began, White House Aides Larry O'Brien, Henry Hall Wilson Jr. and Richard Dona hue stationed themselves conspicuously outside the House chamber. Their message to buttonholed Democrats: "The Presi dent really needs this one." When a Mid west Democrat seemed to be faltering, he got a sudden succession of calls from the White House. "My God," he said later, "I never got such attention before...
...Florida Democrat Dante Fascell, who was home campaigning, was instructed to re turn to Washington immediately; Geor gia's Iris Blitch and Pennsylvania's James Byrne were persuaded to get up from sickbeds to be on hand for the key votes. And thus, under the cudgel, the House finally passed the bill by a party-line vote of 219 to 196. It was a victory won by pressure tactics that cannot be used too often without causing resentment...
...approached the thing with some trepi dation." confesses Elmlark, a Kennedy Democrat, who felt that outspoken Right-Winger Bill Buckley might be "too hot to handle." But so far the papers Elm-lark has signed up are hardly the type to take exception to what they have bought...