Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago during a 90-minute private meeting with Lyndon Johnson. Nor did he hesitate to criticize House Minority Leader Gerald Ford's handling of the Powell controversy. Arguing that Ford had made a political "blunder" by marshaling G.O.P. members behind last month's resolution to deny the Harlem Democrat his seat, Brooke charged: "Now the Powell matter has become a Republican problem. It was the Democrats' mess, and we should have let them stew...
...what they got in Reagan's first budget message last week. Higher education was cut back 15%, capital expenditures 17%, state departments and agencies an average 10%. No new programs were proposed. Even after Reagan's slimming course, his budget still totaled $4.62 billion, an increase over Democrat Pat Brown's requested budget a year ago, but still, according to Reagan, $251 million less than the state will actually spend during the current fiscal year...
...procedures are expensive, a stringent local program inevitably discourages new plants in the area. Other local interests can also come into play. When the Arizona legislature debated a smog-abatement bill last week, one member charged that it was discriminatory. "Under this bill," joked State Representative Lloyd House, a Democrat who is a Navajo Indian, "we would not be permitted to send up smoke signals." His real objection was that it violated tribal land rights. The bill passed anyway...
Died. Charles A. Buckley, 76, one of the last oldtime big-city bosses, Bronx County, N.Y., Democratic leader for 13 years and 15-term U.S. Congressman who was one of the first to jump aboard the Kennedy bandwagon when he pressured New York delegates into supporting J.F.K.'s nomination for President at the 1960 convention, later backed Bobby for U.S. Senator, but lost his own congressional seat to a Reform Democrat in 1964 and spent his last years petulantly flailing away at the "amateurs," "stiffs" and "Johnny-come-late-lies" who were wresting party control from him; of lung...
Sensitive to charges of partisanship, the institute has balanced its guest list with an eye to political realities. First came Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, whose appearance touched off a raucous student protest (TIME, Nov. 18). Then came Republican House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, followed by Detroit's Democratic Mayor Jerome Cavanagh. Scheduled this spring are Republican George Romney and Democrat Carl Sanders, former Governor of Georgia...