Word: democratized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...appointment giving Kennedy the most trouble was the most important one of all: Secretary of State. One by one Kennedy ran down a list of eligibles, rejecting them for various reasons. By week's end his strongest preference was for Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, 55, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...that moment last week Kennedy had already announced, or was ready to announce, several key appointments, and had all but finally decided on several others. For Secretary of Agriculture, he had in mind South Dakota's Democratic Congressman George McGovern, 38, an ex-Air Force hero who ran this year against Republican Senator Karl Mundt and lost. A onetime history professor at Dakota Wesleyan University, bright and energetic George McGovern in 1956 became the first Democrat in 20 years to be elected to high office in his state. His views on agriculture match Kennedy's: he favors high...
...second panelist, the Hon. Jules Kiano, Minister of Government and industry in Kenya, detailed the national aspirations of East Africans.. Disclaiming an over-riding interest in what he called "Plato's 'good life'--that man was a great philosopher, but not much of a democrat," Dr. Kiano told of an important and continuing attempt "to make blackness one of those things of which a man can be proud. "We feel this above all other aspirations--almost like missionaries. In fact, we may have to send some of these missionaries to Louisiana...
...Manhattan. Connecticut Democrat Tom Dodd issued his own statement of principle: he was not about to go "whole hog'' on the Democratic platform, "merely because it was adopted by our party convention . . . Any attempt of a party convention to dictate to a President or a Congress concerning constitutional responsibilities cannot be countenanced...
...election night an impatient Democrat picked up a telephone and called Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, hoping to persuade the Vice President of the U.S. to concede. Soon he was screaming at a switchboard operator who refused to put him through: "But this is Frank Sinatra...