Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic presidential nomination. Ringing up the most votes ever cast for a Democrat in New Jersey, he carried 14 of the state's 21 counties (including normally Republican Essex and Union), smashed Republican hopes by running close on Forbes's heels in the other seven. He corralled the Negro vote, even though Forbes had told Negroes that they should vote Republican in return for the President's action at Little Rock. Meyner spread coattails broad enough to carry back to Trenton with him an additional Democratic state senator and 22 new assemblymen, making the assembly Democratic...
...Nixon endorsements of Forbes, Meyner's success was all the sweeter because it was a do-it-yourself kind of victory. He had firmly rejected outside aid, i.e., from Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy. Meyner billboards did not even worry about the word Democrat. In short, Bob Meyner did it on his record, his personality and a well-oiled, new-model state machine. Said he modestly: "Whatever outside political influence the New Jersey verdict may be deemed to have, I leave to others...
...year local elections, often treacherous to politicians and political pundits, usually turn on a name, a face or a voice. Among the names, faces and voices that came through last week: CJ In Pittsburgh (pop. 680,000), Mayor Dave Lawrence, 68, a Democratic boss who runs the wards and precincts with a clenched fist and welcomes civic redevelopment projects with an open hand (TIME, Nov. 4), ignored feeble Republican attempts to trip him on such issues as Little Rock and a local trolley strike (typically, both strikers and management came to Dave Lawrence's defense), rolled to a fourth...
...swooped one morning into the state of Kansas, for 20 years solemnly synonymous with Republicanism but now living with a Democrat in the statehouse. On hand to lead the cheers was Governor George Docking, a banker by trade. From the Kansas party regulars, energized like a cluster of flaming first-stage rockets, came cheers, ovations, oohs and aahs, as twinkling Jack Kennedy worked his way down a reception line...
...February. Kentuckian Reed concurred in the Supreme Court school-desegregation decision of 1954, wrote the majority opinion that outlawed the Southern white primary. Southerners could take comfort, however, from Reed's reputation as the court's most conservative member during his latter years on the bench. Predicted Democrat Reed: "I'm sure we'll have plenty of trouble." ¶ Vice chairman: Michigan State President John A. Hannah, 55. Republican Hannah served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel from 1953-54, was an NRA poultry code administrator in the early 19305, became President...