Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey swore in the only new mem ber: Virginia Democrat Harry Flood Byrd Jr., 51, a ringer for his famous father, who resigned in November be cause of ill health, after 32 years in of fice. "Little Harry," as he is called back home in Winchester, where he is editor of the Winchester Star (circ. 13,-000), took his father's old front-row desk for the first day, will eventually move to a back-of-the-chamber spot reserved for new members. On the House side, two new members also took the oath: Ohio...
...main point of contention will be the increasingly heavy economic burden imposed by the stepped-up war in Viet Nam. Even before the new session began, Republicans and Democrats alike were having second thoughts about where the money would come from to finance both war and welfare. "We've got a war on our hands," said Senate G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who celebrated his 70th birthday last week, "and I think some of these domestic programs can be scaled down." Warned Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee: "We are going to have...
Last week it did. Louisiana Democrat Willis started contempt proceedings against not only Shelton but six other United Klan nabobs (including four Grand Dragons, an Imperial Klass and an Imperial Kludd) who had been equally uncooperative. If the citations are approved by the full committee and the House, the Klansmen will be subject to prosecution and sentences of up to a year in jail and $1,000 in fines each. That prospect, at least, unclammed Shelton. He was not in contempt of either Congress or the committee, he snorted, but only of the "martini-bibbing, character-assassinating and truth-twisting...
...ferret-eyed kid who had left his native Pickens, S.C., at 14 to become a Senate page had been charged with gross impropriety for using his post as a Senate aide to become Washington's No. 1 influence peddler. But he had survived two sideshow investigations by the Democrat-packed Rules Committee, which was not anxious to strike down the man who had been Lyndon Johnson's protégé and top aide. And he still showed himself through Washington like an elegant boulevardier, his jowls freshly barbered, his darting eyes hidden behind a pair of grotesquely...
...thus made himself the front runner among four G.O.P. hopefuls-even though he is a staunch conservative in a state where Republicanism has traditionally tended toward the progressive side. Reagan's political reputation dates from the 1964 presidential campaign when-only four years after becoming a Democrat-for-Nixon- he won attention as a speechmaker and fund raiser for Barry Goldwater...