Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullets that flew through the paneless windows and fanned his ears. A thin smile formed around his non-filter cigarette as he banged out on his balky machine the fire-breathing tag to the next day's scathing editorial. Hodding Carter, 30-year-old crusading editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, knee-deep in the mire called Mississippi, clawing at the Magnolia Curtain...
Others felt the same disappointment. Civil-rights workers in Greenville, who swam in the lake, drank Dr. Pepper from the bottle and wore dungarees--they too had heard about Carter and had read the Delta Democrat-Times; then they came to town and saw the big house. "Fat cat," they chanted...
...resolution caused something of a furor in both the U.S. and Latin America, but the fuss did not obscure its clear warning to Russia and China. Its object, said Alabama Democrat Armistead Selden, the resolution's sponsor and the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, was "to make it clear to Communists that they cannot count on the principle of nonintervention to shield their takeover of a hemisphere country." Added he: "It is a pretty good mandate about how the people of this country really feel...
...kind of house the Humphreys need. Senator George Smathers has introduced a bill that would make a vice-presidential residence out of Admiral's House, a 14-room mansion just off Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row, now assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations. Another bill, by Democrat Mike Monroney, would create a three-member commission, give it $1,000,000 to buy or build an appropriate house...
Last week the system was labeled "an iceberg of corruption" in a 515-page report compiled by Pennsylvania's Assistant Attorney General Arlen Specter, 35, a liberal Democrat turned liberal Republican, who also happens to be running for election as Philadelphia's district attorney against Incumbent James C. Crumlish Jr. Predictably, Democrat Crumlish blasted Specter's report as purely political. All the same, it was a well-documented shocker-the work of 27 state investigators who toiled for ten months at the request of Attorney General Walter E. Alessandroni...