Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were most other Senators, but the helter-skelter attacks on the Middle East resolution continued, ranging from Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse's legalistic pedantry ("I am waiting for the opposition point of view to provide some answers before I proceed to rebuttal and surrebuttal and rebuttal of the surrebuttal") to Indiana Republican William Jennet's naked cynicism ("Here is the Walter Mitty dream plan for an easy, effortless world"). It remained for two Democrats, one seeking a drastic change in the resolution and the other making an eloquent plea for its adoption without amendment, to flag down...
...just like roundup time in Texas. The politicos were moving in thundering herds, and vote-rustling, legitimate-like, was going on by glare of day and dark of night. The big rustle and bustle centered around the U.S. Senate seat that Democrat Price Daniel left when he took over as governor this year (TIME, Jan. 28), and with election day less than a month away, 24 eager politicians were running...
Last week, as an estimated 5,000,000 Thais trooped to the polls, Bangkok was a Jersey City in Technicolor. Charges of fire-carding, parachuting and hooliganism echoed and re-echoed. "They're cheating plenty," complained Democrat Nai Khuang, angrily waving what he said were government-doctored ballots. "I deny everything," retorted Air Force Marshal Feun Ronapakart...
WASHINGTON, March 4--William J. Brennan, New Jersey Democrat chosen by President Eisenhower for the Supreme Court, won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee today...
...Appointed as a judge of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, West Virginia) Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., 44, of Greenville, S.C., an Eisenhower Democrat and "country lawyer" with a record of no affiliation with groups on either side of the school-segregation issue. C| Nominated as Assistant Defense Secretary for Public Affairs to succeed Robert Tripp Ross, who resigned under Senate fire over a Defense contract awarded to his wife's firm (TIME, Feb. 25), Murray Snyder, 45, longtime (1953-57) White House Assistant Press Secretary. Able, Brooklyn-born Murray Snyder...