Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor did work hard, and so did the party leadership's subsequent choice. Red-haired John Joyce Gilligan, 47, a former Congressman and Cincinnati city councilman, whose brains, liberal views and Democratic loyalty prompted the campaign tag, "the real Democrat," campaigned assiduously, while Lausche-in his own words-sometimes "fiddled around...
...papers a group, not a chain, he encourages local autonomy, and his papers make the most of it. The Detroit Free Press (circ. 605,000), the Miami Herald (369,600), the Charlotte Observer (177,950), the Akron Beacon Journal (178,147), the Charlotte News (63,772) and the Tallahassee Democrat (29,300) are all increasing their circulation and are highly profitable. With interests in one television and three radio stations as well as three Florida weeklies, the group's total revenues reached $123 million in 1967, up $4,000,000 from the year before. 'Net income, however...
...sheriff's decision to hang up his legislative guns is also based on political realism. Democrat Hayden faced the toughest fight of his career-and perhaps his first defeat since turning professional-because Barry Goldwater will be the Republican candidate. Still, Hayden is not withdrawing entirely. He is promoting the candidacy of his administrative assistant, Roy Elson, 37, for the Democratic nomination. In a statement drafted for distribution this week, Hayden says: "If you still care about how I think, join me in urging Roy Elson to run in my place...
Until 1942, Ridruejo was a member of the Spanish fascist party, the Falange. That year he left the party and entered a period of introspection from which he was to emerge a democrat and a socialist, in complete opposition to Franco. His conversion is a source of his pre-eminent position within the opposition, for he criticizes the fascists after having been "one of them...
...McCarthy and myriad unspecified acts of vindictiveness, Kennedy seems to many to appeal to "the darker impulses of the American spirit" -a sin that he was unwise enough to ascribe to Lyndon Johnson last month. Said a Los Angeles housewife last week, after switching her voting registration to Democrat so that she could vote against Bobby: "He is dogmatic, ruthless, dangerous, and as phony as an $18 bill...