Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total eligible), breaking the previous record, set in 1952, by 473,658. Final official returns (except Rhode Island, where a handful of absentee ballots remained to be counted), computed last week, showed Republican Dwight Eisenhower with 35,575,420, giving him a plurality of 9,542,354 over Democrat Adlai Stevenson, whose total was 26,033,066. Ike's margin of actual votes was the largest ever awarded a Republican candidate, but still ran second to Franklin Roosevelt's 11,072,014-vote plurality over Republican Alf Landon...
...Defense Secretary Wilson spotted Burgess-a Democrat-for-Eisen-hower-and brought him full-time into the Administration as Assistant Defense Secretary. Manpower Expert Burgess worked out the Army's new Ready Reserve Program, headed the committee that wrote the post-Korean prisoner-of-war code. A hard-but smooth-working executive with a knack for grasping complicated ideas and reducing them to a two-sentence précis, Burgess won a reputation as one of the best administrators in Government. As administrator of the nation's fourth largest airline, Burgess will earn an estimated $100,000 (including...
North Carolina's Senator W. Kerr (pronounced car) Scott, 60, is a Democrat of the hardfisted, harsh-tongued, Harry Truman school (in 1951, then-Governor Scott announced that his three top choices for President were "Harry S. Truman, Harry Truman and Truman"). As such, he never much cottoned to the low-key, upper-level sort of Democratic leadership typified by Adlai Stevenson. And when Republican Dwight Eisenhower this year came within 15,487 votes of carrying Democratic North Carolina, Kerr Scott thought he knew...
Naming Parents. One of the strongest advocates of a tougher policy is Publisher Richard H. Amberg of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Until last December, his paper (circ. 300,375) was as careful as the Post-Dispatch (402,439) not to identify delinquents. Then three 16-year-old boys raped a 14-year-old girl. Amberg not only ran their names but wrote an editorial saying: "We feel that if somebody is old enough to rape a girl, he is old enough to get his name in the paper...
...from New York by involving himself in a petty political squabble with Governor Averell Harriman. Javits plans to retain his post as State Attorney General until January 9, when the Republican-controlled State Legislature convenes, so that another Republican may be appointed by the legislature to fill his post. Democrat Harriman claims, however, that the meeting of the Senate on January 3 will automatically vacate Javits' state post and permit the Governor to fill the spot with an appointee...