Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What, asked a reporter, did Meany think about the likelihood that Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. will become chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee next year? "Terrible," said forthright George Meany. "He has a bad voting and absentee record. He uses his position to stir up racial hatred. It's terrible to think that we will have a man like that as chairman...
...keep Big Labor from damaging the economy by pushing up wages faster than productivity goes up - is likely to be pretty much ignored in 1960; nobody wants to antagonize labor leaders already annoyed about last year's Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill. To soothe labor's feelings, Democrats in Congress are planning to pass a bill upping the U.S. minimum wage from $1 to $1.25, or at least $1.10. Democrat Humphrey openly calls the Landrum-Griffin Act punitive. Republican Nix on openly calls it very constructive. RELIGION...
...Alice Ghostley, the show played St. Louis last week, midway in a six-city tryout tour. When Thurber himself missed the St. Louis opening, his wife explained that her near-blind 65-year-old husband was in his hotel room energetically polishing and rewriting lines. Wrote cautious Globe-Democrat Critic Herbert L. Monk: "A Thurber Carnival does seem to have the makings...
...short time after his talk with Stevenson, "Scotty" Reston put through a call of his own to the junior U.S. Senator from Arkansas, Democrat J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and another Reston friend and source. This time, the Washington correspondent had an assignment for the Senator. Reston had been brooding about the problems that would face a newly elected U.S. President, "that exhausted man who stumbles across the line the first of November," with but eleven weeks before taking office in January...
...attempt to gloss over the possibility that the U.S.S.R. could outnumber the U.S. by 3 to 1 in long-range missiles in 1961-63, even though a few new hard facts of intelligence point toward production plans that would reduce the ratio to 2 to 1. In Washington Democrat Symington snapped: "He completely confirms my position without reservation." Said Democrat Johnson less sharply: "I believe that our officials are patriotic men trying to do the best they know how, but I think we could all sleep in more peace if our country spent more time putting its best effort into...