Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American officialdom, inured to the cold, classic ploys of bureaucracy, the 1956 wave of huddled masses was a strange but warming experience. In Vienna, the U.S. Consulate staff processed the stream of Hungarians round the clock; even Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis Walter, co-author of the restrictive McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, returned from an inspection trip along the Austro-Hungarian border (where he saw a rebel shot down) to demand that the U.S. quota of arriving refugees be raised from 5,000 to 17,000. The Army reached fast, far and wide to find GIs of Hungarian descent...
With long-term contracts and less flaunting of the party line has come new acceptance for the I.L.W.U. in the eyes of island businessmen. And the union's sizable vote is sending politicians scurrying high and low after I.L.W.U. support; e.g., this month it helped Democrat John A. Burns easily unseat Republican Territorial Delegate Elizabeth Farrington from the U.S. Congress...
...Powell was no longer considered a Democrat, what about Mississippi's pure-white Democratic Representative John Bell Williams, who backed States'-Righter T. Coleman Andrews against Adlai Stevenson? Was that a case of another color? Well, said Sheppard, his group had not "as yet gone through the entire employment category and classified Democrats v. Republicans...
...Jersey's 13th District, incumbent Democrat Alfred D. Sieminski, 45, trailed Republican Norman Roth by 149 votes after his district's 282 voting machines had been counted. But Sieminski won 637 absentee votes to Roth's 431, finally edged his opponent 54,841 to 54,784, became the only Hudson County Democrat to withstand a G.O.P. rout of the Kenny machine...
...Nebraska's Third District, following a hard-fought battle between two candidates who both favored the Bricker amendment and opposed foreign aid northeast Nebraska's drought-suffering farmers blamed their misfortune on Ezra Benson-Backer Robert D. Harrison, 59. Democrat Lawrence Brock shocked Republican Nebraska by winning the home vote, 61,295 to 60,166. But when 3,500 absentee ballots had been opened. Republican Harrison won his fourth term by a narrow...