Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argued Dirksen, limits a man's right to earn a living. Said he: "After all the noise and detonations in this chamber about the right to vote, that right cannot compare with the right to work, because inherent in it is the right of survival." Nonsense, replied Tennessee Democrat Ross Bass: "The American worker is never led into a box or into a factory where he has to work. He has the free right of working there or of seeking employment elsewhere. He does not have to work in a given plant. He does not have to pay homage...
What has happened in Virginia is that Holton, rallying the state G.O.P. from long hibernation, is making a spirited attempt to take over the governorship from Democrat Albertis S. Harrison Jr., who is barred by state law from succeeding himself. Though Helton's official opponent is Lieutenant Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr., 50, his most potent adversary is U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, 78, the aged boss and personification of Virginia politics...
...from a sizable new voting element: the young federal employees and their families who have fanned out across the Potomac to settle in Virginia's Fairfax and Arlington Counties. Many are mobile, highly professional newcomers who have liberal views but consider themselves politically independent; though employed by a Democratic Administration, they may well prefer a moderate Republican to a Byrd-backed Democrat. Whichever way they go, Holton seems certain to poll a record vote for a Republican gubernatorial candidate-but probably not enough to beat Godwin...
Dead Duck. Fractured and fragmented, the Administration supporters fell apart. In the end, the House adopted by a vote of 227 to 174 a substitute bill proposed by California Democrat B. F. (for Bernie Frederic) Sisk, who, though normally an Administration trusty, thought he had a better formula. The Sisk bill simply postpones the issue by providing that the home-rule question be put to a vote of District residents within 100 days. If approved, an elected charter board would have 210 days in which to draft a plan for city government; this in turn would have to be approved...
Also in February, a group of Young Democrats was organized at the University of Mississippi. It is around this contigent that the present MDC-backed faction is built. Cleveland Donald, a Negro from the integrated YDs at Ole Miss, and Hodding Carter III, on leave from the Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat Times and presently a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, are the cochairmen of the moderate delegation to the New York convention...