Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blackmail & Terror." The U.S. Sen ate convened in a mood of icy anger. California Republican Thomas Kuchel accused Khrushchev of "sham and hypocrisy." Cried Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington: "It has never been clear to me why we should take for granted the fact the Soviets ever stopped testing. Why should we assume they are not testing? . . . Our Allies are watching what we do, not what we say." Backed by a dozen other Senators,* Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to resume nuclear tests immediately. Stopping the tests in 1958, said Dodd, "was the most fatuous...
...cream-colored doors of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee room swung open and the weary members of a Senate House conference committee emerged after six days of bargaining. They left behind Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright to face newsmen. Fulbright spoke slowly, somberly. The conference committee, he said, had at last arrived at a compromise agreement for the U.S. foreign aid program. As Fulbright briefly described the terms of that agreement, it appeared outwardly to be a considerable victory for the Kennedy Administration. Actually, it was by far the Administration's most serious legislative defeat this session...
Balance of Strength. The defeat came after a long, hard struggle. Last month the Senate overwhelmingly approved almost everything that President Kennedy had wanted. And before the approving vote, the Senate handily defeated an amendment (which the Administration called totally unacceptable), sponsored by Virginia's purse-conscious Democrat Harry Byrd, which would have granted authority for the five-year program, but would have placed its financing on an annual basis...
There was never any question about who would succeed Mr. Sam in the Speaker's high-backed swivel chair for the remainder of the session. For the eleventh time during his 17 years as House majority leader, Democrat John McCormack of Massachusetts was for mally elected as Speaker pro tern. Since there is little legislation pending that is likely to demand Mr. Sam's presence, McCormack will run the House until it adjourns toward the end of September. If Rayburn's health were to cause his resignation this session, McCormack would be the automatic choice...
Into Polemics. As Phillips' band of conservatives moved onto the Wisconsin campus, outgoing N.S.A President Richard Rettig, a liberal Democrat, charged that they had "close financial contact" with adult conservatives. They bedded down in $12-a-day rooms at the Madison Inn, while other delegates stayed in dormitories...