Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally Bill Knowland threw up his hands at trying to achieve a compromise, announced that all attempts had stopped and that the Senate would simply vote on the amendment offered by an awesome coalition-within-the-coalition-liberal New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson and liberal Vermont Republican George Aiken-to strike out Section III entirely...
...twelve years) and Congressman, he quit Washington in 1948 to be the Byrd candidate for attorney general, with the implied promise of a turn at governor. But as attorney general he lost his place in line when he endorsed Harry Truman's nomination of an anti-Byrd Virginia Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission. (Byrd beat the nomination in the Senate.) As a result, Byrd-minded Governor Thomas B. Stanley and other Byrd oligarchs settled on State Senator Garland Gray as this year's organization candidate for governor. Almond announced anyway, traveled doggedly from county seat to county...
...Senate, after voting down cuts proposed by Illinois' left-wing Democrat Paul Douglas and Idaho's right-wing Republican Henry Dworshak, unanimously approved a $34.5 billion defense appropriation-virtually all, except for bookkeeping shifts, that the Administration had asked...
Before official Washington could get out if town for the long weekend, Massachusetts' Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy set off a cannon cracker in the Senate that rattled the windows at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and painfully burned an ally 3,800 miles away. The Kennedy rework: an urgent appeal for the U.S. to step into the bloody Algerian rebellion against French rule and lend its weight to the cause of Algerian independence...
...Mayor John Hynes visited Italy last week on a good-will mission from his Italian-American constituents to the all-Italian citizens of Rome, and managed to kick up a fuss that out-curled Curley at his bushy-tailed best. Gallivanting about Rome with 60 other rubbernecking Bostonians, Democrat Hynes got himself photographed with a nestful of Neo-Fascists, was front-paged by happy Communists and indignant Conservative dailies alike. Some newspaper reports alleged that Hynes had visited the Neo-Fascist headquarters, had seen a film glorifying Mussolini's last stand, asked a café orchestra to play...