Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kennedy's assignment could be charged off as a 1960 political gambit, it could also be explained by a ruling handed down four years ago when Lyndon Johnson assumed floor leadership. Johnson's dictum: every Democrat should sit on at least one committee of his choice; even first-termers, wherever possible, should have an interesting committee assignment. Estes Kefauver already ranked high on not one but two prime committees, i.e., second Democrat on Judiciary, fourth on Armed Services. On the other hand, Kennedy had served his apprenticeship on the mediocre Labor and Government Operations Committees, was due under...
...Hall is bowing out of his job because he wants to run against Democrat Averell Harriman for governor of New York in 1958, and well knows that a party chairman, no matter how talented, is considered something of a political hack when it comes to a campaign for high office. Therefore, when Hall gets back from a month or more of sunning and fishing at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he is expected to move into a high-level Washington job, where he can not only put his talents to work for the Administration that he helped reelect, but prove that...
...Leader. Last week by unanimous vote Free Democrat bosses picked a new leader: sly, stubborn Stuttgart Lawyer Reinhold Maier, 67. Taking over from tactless Thomas Dehler, whose head-down charges in futile quest of East-West unity ("we must take , the Russians at their word") have scared off many followers, Maier is an old-style anticlerical German "liberal," paunchy, frugal and folksy. He is a Swabian who likes nothing ,better than to walk the Württemberg slopes in clodhopper shoes, Lederhosen and hairy loden-cloth jacket, stopping now and again to exchange light-heavyweight jokes with farmers...
...from all shoddy workmanship, which betrays the possible best, and from cowardly expediency, which is treason to the highest integrity." With the 33 other members beginning terms, he marched to the Senate well to be sworn in by the Vice President. Then came Lausche's moment. When Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson proposed that Arizona's venerable Carl Hayden be elected Senate President Pro Tempore, Republican Bill Knowland rose, offered New Hampshire's Styles Bridges instead, called for yeas and nays on his amendment-the time-honored way of finding out whether the Senate will organize as Republican...
...chairmen of both major national party committees, Republican Leonard Hall and Democrat Paul M. Butler, found themselves in a state of rare agreement. Butler told a special House committee studying lobbying and campaign activities that televiewers were bored sick by the torrent of campaign oratory that flooded their TV screens this year. Appearing before the same sitting solons two days later, Chairman Hall allowed: "You can saturate television with too much politics." Hall cited his proof-a welcome harbinger of less saturation in campaigns to come: political broadcasts win "very very low" audience ratings unless the speakers are candidates...