Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Missourians thronged to the polls to nominate Lieutenant Governor Thomas F. Eagleton, 38, an attractive, Kennedyesque Democrat who campaigned against the Viet Nam war. Long carried the inner cities, but Eagleton captured the populous suburbs, getting 211,269 votes to 192,163 for Long and 169,312 for Conservative W. True Davis, with all but 33 precincts counted. Long bitterly called his defeat a victory for "snoopers," adding: "The man who builds a house on public service builds it of straw and on sand." Eagleton faces able Republican Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, 57, in November. If elected, Curtis...
...Neill is pledged by law to McCarthy for the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention because of the Minnesota Democrat's victory in the April Massachusetts presidential primary. The Bay State Congressman, a member of the powerful House Rules Committee and an eight-term incumbent, is the first major Massachusetts Democratic office-holder to endorse McCarthy...
Again this summer liberals in O'Neill's ethnically heterogeneous district put pressure on him--this time to vote for McCarthy or at least against Humphrey. Thousands of letters supposedly were written urging him as a delegate to vote for the Minnesota Democrat. McCarthy forces made moves to organize a campaign to defeat him in the September Massachusetts Democratic primary...
...provides for licensing gun owners or federal registration of firearms. The bitter opposition of South Carolina's Strom Thurmond had convinced the Senate's chief gun-control proponent, Joseph Tydings, that his only chance for a tough bill lay on the Senate floor itself, where the Maryland Democrat hopes to revive the measure after the conventions...
...House, New Jersey Democrat Charles S. Joelson was not heartened when told that gun-control foes "could live with" the watered-down bill. "I suggest," he chided his colleagues, "that tens of thousands of Americans can die with...