Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill built around the referee plan might in the long run prove more attractive to the Senate's Lyndon Johnson than a Senate-made bill. Reason: an original Senate bill might get tied up again in the House Rules Committee, presided over with benevolent segregationist despotism by Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, committee chairman...
...spinning over the globe with renewed power. U.S. Information Agency posts abroad hurriedly cranked out dossiers on Chessman for the benefit of those who had long forgotten (or had never known) the details of the man's crimes. California's State Senate Majority Leader Hugh Burns, Democrat and once Brown's most effective supporter, charged that the Governor had let "the people of California down." In Chicago, the American Bar Association ordered a study to determine whether federal legislation is needed to limit multiple appeals...
...House Armed Services Committee, up in arms, deputized Illinois Democrat Melvin Price to investigate all the Air Force manuals. The Air Force started its own investigation, named its deputy chief, General Curtis LeMay, who has better things to do, to lead it. Defense Secretary Gates ordered an investigation of all nontechnical manuals in all the services, with special instructions to blue-pencil any lines that are "lacking in good taste or common sense." Said one Congressman with commendable restraint: "Somehow we've got to switch our attention from gracious living to the missile...
...Commander Nixon and his lady were stationed in Baltimore. Pat was pregnant, and the future was uncertain. Then a now-famous telegram came from Whittier: a "Committee of One Hundred" active Republicans wanted to know if Dick would be interested in running for the congressional seat solidly held by Democrat Jerry Voorhis. After discussing the proposition at length, says Pat, "I could see that it was the life he wanted, so I told him that it was his decision, and I would do what he liked." Nine days after Dick Nixon announced his candidacy in what seemed...
...doorstep is a source of never ending embarrassment to George Meany, who has labored long and well to eliminate segregation in unions. Last week he admitted that the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Civil Rights Committee was stymied by Local 26. To spread the blame for the shame, Democrat Meany then elected to discredit the President's Committee, through whose good works Vice President Nixon has been rolling up quite a bit of popular support among Negro voters...