Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost empty Senate chamber shambled hulking, crag-faced Paul H. (for Howard) Douglas of Illinois, zestfully booming out the long jargon phrases of higher economics. White crew-cut hair bristling, Democrat Douglas last week was declaiming on an emerging issue in 1960 politicking: the state of the U.S. economy after seven years of Republican stewardship. Prompting his performance was his Joint Economic Committee's report on a year-long study of U.S. employment, growth and price levels...
...that the U.S. had reduced its estimate of future Russian missile production by judging Russian "intentions" instead of "capabilities." One day last week Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson announced casually that Gates's nomination was going to be held up because "several Senators" had questioned it (actually, only Wyoming Democrat Joe O'Mahoney, recovering from a stroke at the Bethesda naval hospital, had asked for an additional day to study Gates's testimony). Just as casually he let Gates know after the next day's tough headlines that the nomination would go through. It did, by voice...
Father Humphrey gave Hubert his passion for politics. Humphrey Sr. was a messianic Democrat in the Republican heartland (he was converted after hearing William Jennings Bryan speak). A minor politician, he was mayor of Doland, served two years in the state legislature in Pierre, and, in 1928, as a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Houston, he helped nominate Al Smith...
...reelection, and a tempting thought crossed Humphrey's mind. He considered it well, then spat on his hands. After all, old William Green had indulgently introduced him as "the next Senator from Minnesota" at a recent A.F.L. convention. The fact that Minnesota had not elected a Democrat to the Senate for 90 years discouraged him not at all. That fall he drove 31,000 miles through the Minnesota birch lands, mountains and lake country, attended 500 meetings, lost 19 Ibs., and beat Joe Ball by 243,693 votes...
...true Republican attitude towards Civil Rights will be revealed in the coming weeks as civil rights proposals attempt to struggle out of hearings before the House Rules Committee. One hundred and seventy-six Democrats have signed a discharge petition to bring a civil rights bill to the floor. As of Monday, only thirty Republicans had signed. A Civil Rights Commission plan to assign Federal Registrars to voting districts which practice discrimination in registering Negroes has been called constitutional by Professor Freund of the Law School and Texas Law School Professor Charles Alan Wright, thus countering the doubts President Eisenhower recently...