Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regime's excuse for the coup boils down to a supposed threat of a revolution led by Papandreou. But Papandreou is no radical. He has refused to form a coalition government with the Communist front United Democrat Party. He was the man sent by Churchill in 1944 to become prime minister and quell the Communist party until an army could be organized. Nor is Papandreou's increasingly popular son Andreas a dangerous leftist; he is a reformer...
Inasmuch as Clark's companions included not only New York's liberal Senators, Democrat Robert Kennedy and Republican Jacob Javits, but also California's conservative Republican George Murphy, the Governor's description bordered on the ludicrous. Murphy, for one, found nothing to laugh about during a daylong tour of the Delta's impoverished Negro communities. Said he, visibly moved by what he had seen: "I didn't know we'd be dealing with starving people." Such testimony-and such obvious need-will unquestionably save most poverty programs. Whether it will save...
...fight to repeal the act was led by Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore, who feared that if such a subsidy were made available before existing laws governing campaign contributions and expenses are overhauled, "we shall simply never achieve reform." New York Democrat Robert Kennedy noted that while the money would theoretically be used only in presidential contests, the act was so loosely worded that funds could easily be diverted to boost favored local candi dates. With such a huge fund at his disposal, an incumbent President could wield vast control over local party machines. In Kennedy's case, the implications...
...Washington. Since 1841, when the practice ended, 23 of 68 Justices have come from only three states-New York, Ohio, Massachusetts.* Nominating rival-party members is supposedly out; yet that heresy has been committed twelve times-mostly by Republican Presidents, though perhaps most dramatically in 1916 when Democrat Woodrow Wilson named Louis Brandeis, the court's first Jew, who despite a decidedly Wilsonian record of liberalism was a registered Republican. Harry Truman ignored the Catholic seat, which started with Chief Justice Roger Taney in 1836; no Catholic served on the court throughout Truman's seven-year term. With...
...Hoover who learned that the Senate can pressure a President into nominating its man instead of his own. After Holmes resigned in 1932, leaving the court with two New Yorkers and a Jew, Hoover's last choice was Judge Benjamin Cardozo-a New Yorker, a Jew and a Democrat to boot. Cardozo, however, had wide appeal as a reformer, and as the Depression deepened in an election year, Senate leaders indicated to the President that it was possible that no one else would be confirmed. Hoover was forced to name Cardozo-and hear his move lauded on the Senate...