Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's Boss-Mayor Richard J. Daley sent an SOS for Wilson last January after a small-bore burglar gave convincing evidence of his year of crime collaboration with ten Chicago cops (TIME, Feb. 1). This evidence, on top of everything else, gave Democrat Daley the worst political rocking of his five years in office, prompted him to demote his police commissioner. To California's Wilson and a blue-ribbon citizens' committee, Mayor Daley gave a sweeping order: Find the best police superintendent in the country. Last week, after interviewing no fewer than 37 candidates, the committee...
...Senator Hubert Humphrey, is before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Christian Herter, Attorney General William Rogers and Vice President Nixon, all have gone on record favoring the repeal of the Connally Reservation. Arkansas' William Fulbright, committee chairman, is in favor too. But Democrat Fulbright hesitates to send the repealer to the Senate until he sees signs that he can muster the two-thirds vote necessary for repeal. His biggest problem, says he, is Republicans, and he has quietly passed the word to the Administration that he will not send the repealer to the Senate...
Eight months ago, as he whipped up Sicilian voters with the slogan, "Sicily for the Sicilians. Down with the mainland," owl-eyed Silvio Milazzo (TIME, June 22) indignantly denied that he was proCommunist. "I am no Trojan horse," intoned dissident Christian Democrat Milazzo. "I am a pure-blooded Sicilian horse, a noble animal." He became president of Sicily's semi-autonomous regional government, ruling in coalition with the Communists. But last week Maverick Milazzo, no longer regarded as so pure-blooded a Sicilian horse, was put to pasture...
...Democrat Chough was a disciple of Rhee's from 1911-when they met in the Seoul Y.M.C.A.-until 1952, when Rhee had Chough beaten up and thrown into jail for 27 days. It had been Rhee, one of Woodrow Wilson's favorite students at Princeton, who persuaded Chough's father to send the 16-year-old boy to study in the U.S. Taking a Ph.D. at Columbia, Chough returned to Korea to teach economics and to preach anti-Japanese nationalism. The Japanese jailed him for five years...
Died. Adone Zoli, 72, leading Christian Democrat and onetime (1957-58) Premier of Italy, sponsor of hard-money policies as Minister of the Budget (1956-58); in Rome...