Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Threats & Heartbreak. The subcommittee turned as purple as the magnolia blossoms on the Mall. Snorted Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee (who is well equipped to snort): "He is attempting to sandbag us with threats...
Roared Virginia Democrat J. Vaughan Gary (who is well equipped to roar): "If we're going to yield to threats of that type, we will lose all control . . ." The subcommittee voted to give Summerfield $17 million and no more...
Williams, who was elected last fall to an unprecedented fifth consecutive term, yesterday visited Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo, also a Democrat, and spoke briefly before the Massachusetts House...
...Ohio Democrat Frank Lausche rose to back Douglas, but before day's end Lausche, too, crumbled. Ohio's senior Senator, Republican John Bricker, urging an extra $15 million for harbor improvements in Cleveland, remarked with a straight face that the state's junior Senator favored the amendment. Put on the spot, Lausche reached for his slice of pork. "I would be unfair to my constituents in Ohio," he declared, "if ... I did not concur with my associate Senator...
Like most calypso singers, Kontiki learned his trade on the streets, where, as one of 16 children in a poor family, he spent most of his time. Unlike most, he devoted himself from the start strictly to politics rather than other topical matters, praising democrats and making fun of strongmen. During the 1952 Panamanian elections he made his professional breakthrough with a glowing ditty about a democrat of sorts, the late President Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remon. The lyrics, shunning excess modesty, called Remon "the saviour of Panama"; Remon used it as a campaign jingle, and after he won the election...