Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was one thing clear about next May's presidential primary in Oregon, it was that all the Democratic possibles would get a chance to show what they could do-since Oregon will put any name on the ballot on petition of a mere 1,000 voters. If there was another thing clear about the primary, it was that Oregon's U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, a latter-day Democrat, was not likely to let any Democrat pick up an advantage in his backyard. Last week, sure enough, Wayne Morse agreed-"reluctantly," he said-to let his name...
...some, but Teamster-backed Wayne Morse already has done nearly as much damage to Kennedy's chances as possible by attacking him up and down the state for his part in framing the Landrum-Griffin labor law. Most grieved were the friends of Morse's fellow liberal Democrat, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who probably will lose most of his votes to Morse. The Humphreyites could hope that Favorite Son Morse will take Oregon's 17 delegates to the Los Angeles convention and some time after the first ballot, turn them over to Humphrey. But then, with...
...when Assistant Managing Editor Theodore Bernstein was pressed for specific proscriptions, he could only answer with a grin, "No yachts." The Minneapolis Star and Tribune restated existing policy: "Never accept more than a modest amount of anything one can eat, or drink, or that wilts." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reminded staffers of the paper's longstanding objection to acceptance of gifts-particularly anything worth more than...
Yielding to pressure from Professors Galbraith and Schlesinger, the Corporation decides to give out degrees only to Democrats. "We want to even the series," explains one members, "but since the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat, all our awards are posthumous." Other awards go to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Richard III, and Leif Erickson, true discoverer of the continent...