Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington and in the wards, Republicans last week faced up to a blunt fact of political life. The tide that began in 1954 when Democrats took control of both houses of Congress, that carried Democrats into new governors' mansions and state assemblies, that washed Democrat William Proxmire into Joe McCarthy's Wisconsin Senate seat last summer, still is rolling strong. Last week, in a series of state and municipal elections along the East Coast, the Democrats were the big winners again...
...York City mayoralty race, Robert Wagner won by the largest margin ever recorded by a candidate for mayor in city history. In New Jersey, Governor Meyner beat Malcolm Forbes by over 200,000 votes and similarly received more votes than any Democrat in New Jersey history. The Democrats, for the first time in twenty years, also captured the State Assembly, where they gained more seats than they have since 1912. The Democrats triumphed in spite of the fact that Eisenhower carried the state by 750,000 votes in last year's election and despite Forbes' importation of big-name Republican...
Thus virtually unchallenged, Democrat Wagner is campaigning less against Christenberry than against complacency. New York's mayor can be a big fish in national Democratic waters; in addition, New York's Wagner wants desperately to be elected to the U.S. Senate (he lost last year to Republican Jacob Javits by 450,000 votes), where his father, the late Robert F. Wagner Sr., left a record as a promoter of organized labor. For another crack at the Senate, Wagner must roll up a big vote next week; Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio has passed the word that Wagner needs...
...tool of the state's C.I.O. bosses, hoped thereby to pick up some rank-and-file votes. He played relentlessly on Meyner's record budget (up $21 million since Meyner took office), warned New Jersey to "Get a new governor or get new taxes." For his part, Democrat Meyner continued to campaign like a man with his ears plugged. Confident that he would win, he did everything he could to avoid rocking the boat. Anxious to prove that he could win by himself, he turned down all offers of outside Democratic help...
...When Democrat William Proxmire upset heavily favored Republican Walter J. Kohler Jr. for Joe McCarthy's Senate seat...