Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1949, when Democrat G. Mennen Williams became Governor, Michigan's Democrats have controlled the state's executive department while rural Republicans ruled the legislature. But last week, the long, often paralyzing standoff between the Republican legislature and Democratic administration showed signs of ending. In an election of delegates to a constitutional convention next month at Lansing, the G.O.P. engineered its best statewide showing in years...
...Senators in the movie adaptation of Advise and Consent, Otto Preminger tapped a film freshman whom the state of Arizona cast in the same role from 1912 to 1941: Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst, 87. No one, however, could fairly accuse Preminger of typecasting. "Five-Syllable Henry" Ashurst, now living in retirement in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, is admittedly the very model of an oldtime, wing-collared Senator. But in the Preminger movie, he will play a reticent, somnolent solon from Arkansas-a formidable frustration to a man who once described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano...
...lanky, red-haired Gene Wirges, 34, running the weekly Democrat (circ. 3,600) in Morrilton. Ark., has been a basic course in the varieties of violence...
...been shot at, beaten, and threatened so persistently by anonymous telephone callers that he once sent his wife and four children to live for a while in the com parative safety of Little Rock, 35 miles to the southeast. But the campaign of terror, far from scaring the Democrat's spunky editor and proprietor, has only strengthened his resolve. Said Gene Wirges last week, blooded but unbowed: "I think they...
Wirges and the Democrat carefully cased the situation before declaring war on the city-county machine-a fight for which Morrilton's other weekly, the Headlight (circ. 1,600), had no stomach at all. When Democrat editorials began hammering at Hawkins and his gang, Headlight Editor Earle Haynes maintained the courteous silence of a man who has been "selected" three times: once as city recorder, once as alderman, most recently as Morrilton mayor (to replace the incumbent, who resigned because of ill health...