Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Romney comes up against Incumbent Swainson, who has a lackluster record but is a Democrat in a state that has elected only Democratic Governors for the past 14 years, his attractions will be sternly tested. A recent Detroit News poll indicated that if the election had been held in January, Swainson would have won, with 50.7% against 41.9% (7.4% were undecided...
...dustup began last November, when Republican Representative Harrison Chadwick appeared on CBS television and charged that some legislators were involved with bookies. Last week the Democratic-controlled house rules committee was in secret session, trying to decide whether the house should expel Chadwick or merely censure him for his indiscretion. But even as the committee met, Senate President John Powers, a Democrat, fired Robert G. Connolly, a former Democratic legislator who is now chief of the capitol's documents room, for "operating a bookie joint right over our heads beneath the sacred dome." Cried Powers: "He had a radio...
After 30 years of displeasure at the doings of latter-day Democratic Presidents. Columnist David Lawrence, a self-proclaimed Wilsonian Democrat, warmed slightly toward John F. Kennedy. Reason for the thaw: at Lawrence's suggestion. Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther retrieved from a Red Cross attic a chrome-plated Hammond portable typewriter on which Self-Taught Typist Wilson personally pecked out many of his most important presidential memos and messages, including the original draft of his famed "Fourteen Points" for ending World War I. No typist himself, J.F.K. gracefully accepted the machine for the growing White House display...
...Supreme Court." But no legal test is now under way, so the issue will be fought out in Congress. As he did in a similar statement last year, Cardinal Spellman has signaled a rising Catholic pressure that can overwhelm the President's bill by adding Northern Catholic Democratic votes to basic Republican-Southern Democrat opposition...
Within the next decade, an earth-girdling satellite system will relay telephone and TV signals to the remotest corners of the world. Both in Congress and the communications industry the burning question is: Who will own the satellites? Rising to champion private industry, Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr has introduced a bill that would give ownership to a consortium of established U.S. communications companies, presumably led by such titans as A.T. & T. and RCA. In the House, New York Democrat William Fitts Ryan has introduced a bill calling for the creation of a TVA in space...