Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sorensen particularly deplored the fact that the Democrats had no "bright new faces emerging from this election -unless you count Lurleen Wallace and Lester Maddox," while the Republicans came up with a carload. "Let us be frank," he said; if men like Hatfield, Percy, Romney and half a dozen others "had the word Democrat after their names, we would be boasting about them as outstanding figures in today's political scene...
...Republicans' mid-term resurgence gained a little extra luster last week. In Juneau, Democrat William Egan, 52, Alaska's only elected Governor in eight years of statehood, formally acknowledged his defeat by Republican Walter J. Hickel, 47, a hotel and construction millionaire who landed in Anchorage in 1940 with 37? in his pocket. Egan originally conceded the day after the election, only to withdraw his concession when Hickel's lead narrowed. Last week's official canvass put the vote at 33,145 for Hickel, 32,065 for Egan and 1,085 for an independent. The outcome...
Dixie Dozen. In Georgia, the hangup was a matter of old math-Southern style. With 451,032 votes, Republican Congressman Howard Call away had an undisputed lead over Democrat Lester Maddox, who had 448,598. But Democrat Ellis Arnall, a former Governor and the contest's only racial moderate, got 57,832 write-in votes and, under an amendment adopted in 1824, Georgia's constitution requires that a gubernatorial candidate must win more than 50% of the popular vote in order to be elected. If no contender wins an absolute majority, according to the constitution...
First proposed 59 years ago by President Theodore Roosevelt, who even then was worried about the fine distinction between a big campaign contribution and a bribe, the law was finally passed last month on the 89th Congress' final day. Called the "Long Plan," after its Senate sponsor, Democrat Russell Long of Louisiana, it allows the taxpayer to allot $1 of his income tax ($2 in a joint return) for presidential campaign expenses. The amount of the fund will vary in proportion to the number of votes cast in the previous presidential election; it will be divided evenly...
...milestone of sorts. Into an austere caucus chamber in Bonn's Bundestag last week filed a delegation of Christian Democrats followed by a deputation from the opposition Social Democrat Party. With West Germany's political crisis entering its fourth week, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, met with Socialist Leader Willy Brandt to discuss something that had never been tried before in the postwar period: a "grand coalition" between the red and the black...