Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even the biggest-name politicians could shake the voters' "show-me" spirit. Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton all campaigned for the Republican candidate in New Jersey's gubernatorial election-yet the Democratic incumbent piled up the biggest plurality in the state's history. Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and New York's Senator Robert Kennedy lined up behind Democrat Abe Beanie in New York City-yet in Lindsay's shadow their en comiums sounded as if they had come from the party manual. "Look at Hubert Humphrey," chortled House Republican...
...J.F.K. Lindsay attacked Wagner for failing to get $15 million in federal aid because he had filed the papers either too late or not at all. And he made it eminently clear that as mayor he would get as friendly an ear in the White House as any Democrat. Whenever he was heckled about his Republicanism, he brandished a pair of pens, noting that they were bill-signing bestowals from Lyndon Johnson in gratitude for Lindsay's help in pushing through medicare and the Voting Rights Act this year...
...considered a "must" by much of Detroit's white community, which feared that unless the city's nearly 500,000 Negroes had some representation in the municipal government, racially tense Detroit might ignite. Hood had a powerful helping hand from Detroit's able incumbent mayor, Democrat Jerome Cavanagh (TIME, Sept. 24), who himself easily won re-election over a little-known Republican opponent...
...voters in both Philadelphia and Louisville helped Republicans overcome their disastrous nationwide showing in the presidential election last year. In Philadelphia, 35-year-old Arlen Specter, assistant counsel of the Warren Commission, which investigated President Kennedy's assassination, used implausible means to achieve the seemingly impossible. A registered Democrat, he ran for district attorney on the Republican ticket, with the support of Americans for Democratic Action. Specter won, despite a 2-to-l Democratic registration edge and hoots of "Benedict Arlen" and "Specter the Defector" by his former Democratic colleagues. Specter not only assailed the inefficiency of Incumbent...
...Negroes for appointment to high office. But the Negro voters broke with their tradition of supporting G.O.P. candidates in state elections. Richmond's almost solidly Negro First Precinct reflected the shift: though it went 10 to 1 for the Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1961, last week it supported Democrat Godwin...