Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...credit for the mammoth outpouring of Great Society legislation in the 89th Congress. Since the last session, however, he has grown noticeably more emaciated, irascible and heedless of the mood of Congress. After McCormack's defeat on the floor vote that took away Powell's seat, California Democrat Lionel Van Deerlin, a leader of the movement to discipline the Harlem Representative, approached McCormack to explain his action. The Speaker turned away with a disgusted "humph...
With no choice but to carry out the House's will, Speaker McCormack last week handpicked a committee of five Democrats and four Republicans to investigate Adam Powell. As chairman, he named Democrat Emanuel Celler, a New Yorker like Powell and chief House sponsor of every major civil rights bill since 1957. Manny Celler had at the time of the Powell floor debate denounced the whole investigation as "a kangaroo court." Now he heads...
Different Road. By contrast with Lurleen and George, Democrat Robert McNair, taking the oath in South Carolina, another state with a history of bitter-end segregation and states'-rights resistance, was determined to follow the road to moderation. South Caro lina, said McNair, has "no time for obsession with either black power or white backlash. With the opportunities that are before us, this is not the time, and South Carolina is not the place, for those who are preoccupied with extremism or petty frustration...
...hike to finance his ambitious program. He also urged Oregon to become the first state in the Union to appoint an ombudsman to protect the citizen from police and bureaucratic abuses (TIME, Dec. 2). Said McCall: "It's a modern addition to traditional checks and balances." New Jersey Democrat Richard Hughes in his fifth annual legislative message similarly suggested that his state be the first to establish a public-defender system and outlined an agency to protect consumers...
...surprise. Both the U.S. and the Georgia Supreme Courts upheld Georgia's peculiar law allowing the state legislature to elect the Governor if the voters failed to give any candidate more than 50% of the vote; there had been little question what the body would do. With a Democratic majority of 231 to 28 in the legislature's two houses, the legislators voted 182 to 66 to seat Democrat Maddox...