Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Republican Leader Joe Martin, "and when I want votes, I go after 'em. Now Sam's an old campaigner too. When he needs votes, he'll go after them too." In jockeying for position on the first U.S. civil rights bill since Reconstruction, Martin and Democrat Sam Rayburn had gone after votes so skillfully that they were deadlocked. Result: late last week, after days of glaring at each other from a distance, the old campaigners were forced to get together on a compromise of a compromise of a compromise...
...Passed in the Senate,. a bill to buy $1,000,000 worth of new furniture for new Senate offices. Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas protested. New Mexico's Democrat Dennis Chavez replied that Douglas could keep his ratty old furniture if he liked, but other Senators were going to live better. Cried Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who hopes that the bill will improve the Senate restaurant: "Hundreds of hours every day in this capitol are wasted by officials who are paid $22,500 a year, standing in line to get something to eat, as if they were...
...third generation of Lutheran pastors in his family (his son is pastor of St. Philip's Lutheran Church in Brooklyn), Dr. Fry, 56, is a Yankee fan, an ardent Democrat, and a purposeful pinochle player-he has frequently trounced the Archbishop of Canterbury. Regarded as one of the ablest administrators in Protestantism, buoyant Dr. Fry is usually somewhere else in the world than his Manhattan office (which used to be J. P. Morgan's Madison Avenue mansion) or his house in suburban New Rochelle. In the last two years he has circled the globe, visited Russia, India, Australia...
...election to fill Joe McCarthy's U.S. Senate seat. Wisconsin voters seemed to be taking Boyle coolly, but the state's G.O.P. leaders were steaming. Reason: Boyle had turned what seemed a certain victory for G.O.P. Candidate Walter Jodok Kohler Jr. into a just-might chance for Democrat William Proxmire...
...would forgo a try at re-election next year, instead take over (in a sure walk) the Senate seat of retiring William Fife Knowland. Reason: Bill Knowland is certain to announce soon that he himself is a candidate for governor, and every Republican-as well as every hand-rubbing Democrat-knows that a Knight-Knowland primary battle would create one of the ding-dongest political fights in California's history, all to the detriment of the Republican Party. Beyond that, as they all know as well, the statehouse is a good stump from which Governor Bill Knowland could...