Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist agents or dupes. "Good God," roared Kuchel while rushing to Ike's rescue, "should the American people and the American Government let that kind of spleen be poured upon one who has given his whole life to freedom?" Connecticut's burly Tom Dodd, a conservative Democrat and tough antiCommunist, joined in. Welch's judgments, said he, are "an affront to decency and intelligence...
Clearly, a lot more publicity was coming in the society's direction. Kuchel and Congressman Henry Reuss, Wisconsin Democrat, called for a congressional investigation of Welch and his society. A spokesman for Attorney General Robert Kennedy said that the society's activities were "a matter of concern to the Justice Department." Across the land, newspapers began to print articles inquiring into Birch Society techniques in their own home towns...
There is Mary Hazel Houston, a shabby little old lady in sneakers, who padded into the Secretary of State's office to plunk down her $50, and has scarcely been heard from since. There is Harry Diehl, a Democrat, who took a leave of absence from his job as a clerk in a Houston supermarket and filed as "Harry Republican Diehl." There is a woman named Jonnie Mae Eckman, pastor of the House of Prayer in Brenham ("I do declare, now catch your breath, that I am the Christ prophesied of to come"); and one Delbert E. Grandstaff, whose...
...Senate's Interior Committee finally approved one of the most controversial of President Kennedy's political appointees last week, but not without a wrangle that caused a sensation in the placid Virgin Islands and some raised eyebrows in Washington. At issue was the appointment of Millionaire Democrat Ralph Paiewonsky, 53, to be Territorial Governor of the Virgin Islands. The question: How could Paiewonsky possibly avoid conflict of interest considering the fact that his family owns the islands' biggest rum distillery as well as wide-ranging island interests in real estate, movies, liquor, stationery and gift shops...
Died. James Edward Murray, 84, millionaire Montana Democrat who in 26 years in the Senate sponsored such measures as national health insurance, full employment and wider Government planning; of a stroke; in Butte, Mont...