Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second Democrat to declare his presidential intentions, and the leading candidate of his party...
...Minnesota, Humphrey orbited naturally and eagerly to politics, was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945 at the age of 34. A thoroughgoing and effective reformer, he vigorously cleaned up the city, at the same time began a prudent purge of Communists and Wallace Progressives from Minnesota's lively Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party. In 1948 he was elected to the Senate, descended on Washington as one of the brashest and most brilliant of the Fair Deal's Young Turks. In a decade of national politics, Humphrey has been an outspoken advocate of civil rights, farm supports, foreign...
...provision for a lieu tenant governor, his successor was a Republican, John H. Reed, 38, president of the state senate. Reed was sworn in by Maine's chief justice in a somber evening ceremony in the Capitol's Executive Council Chamber. Said Republican Reed of Democrat Clauson: "He was a much beloved...
Breakthrough. In announcing the new index, the Fed pointedly made no reference to the mounting attacks on its pol icy of credit restraint, which many Congressmen contend has sacrificed growth for stable prices. Last week Democrat Paul Douglas' Joint Economic Commit tee of Congress came out with a massive report on "employment, growth and price levels" that criticized the policies of Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. and Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson as "stepping too hard on the fiscal and monetary brakes,"thereby limiting economic expansion. But the Fed's bulletin makes clear that output...
...Democrat Brown did not echo Republican Rockefeller's refusal of a vice-presidential nomination. If the Democratic Convention should select virtually anybody except Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy, then Catholic Californian Brown, with his 81 convention blue chips, might become attractive as the second man on the ticket. And if any of the presidential candidates had ideas of taking those 81 votes away from him in California's June primary, Favorite Son Pat Brown issued a fair warning: "Then I might to some extent change my position . . . But that's the only possible chance there...