Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have brought back balance," sums up Soapy. "I won't say that the state legislature was in the hands of General Motors before I came in, but it was one step away from that. Now it is respectable to be a Democrat in Michigan...
...cutest girl in the school, and she didn't try to baby me." He took a law degree at the University of North Carolina, moved back to Detroit, started attending political meetings because "it was a good way to build up a law practice." One day in 1954, Democratic leaders casually invited him to run for the state senate. "They came around looking for someone with an impeccable background, preferably a war hero. I decided I had nothing to lose." He won, at 29 became the youngest state senator in Michigan history. In Lansing, he rolled up a reputation...
...Going to Try." As of last week, there was plenty of restlessness in Democratic ranks, and politicos gave Paul Bagwell a good even chance of beating the machine. The Detroit News lashed Democrat Swainson for talking generalities while "citizens are coming by firsthand experience to realize that the businesses on which jobs are based cannot be expected to lie still forever while politicians joyfully clout them about the head...
Arizona. Go-Getter Democrat Lee Ackerman, 39, a Missouri-born real estate millionaire, is running a well-organized middle-of-the-road campaign against Republican Incumbent Paul Fannin, 53, wealthy Phoenix gas distributor. Zesty Democrat Ackerman could win unless Nixon carries Arizona by enough of a landslide to bring his ticket along with...
Illinois. Democrat Otto Kerner, 52, a matinee-idol Cook County (Chicago) judge with an impeccable record, is being matched against lackluster Republican Incumbent William Stratton, 46, trying for an unprecedented third term on a record tinged with statehouse scandal. Judge Kerner, the favorite, has endorsements from such normally Republican papers as the Peoria Journal Star and Rockford Star...