Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next week, 35 Senators and the entire House will be involved in Congressional elections. To call for a Democrat over a Republican in every contest would be the epitome of partisanship, but, logically, our desire to see progressive policies enacted requires that we give one party an endorsement for organizing Congress, Many of the Democratic candidates--like Wayne Morse in Oregon and Joseph S. Clark in Pennsylvania--are demonstrably superior in ability to their Republican opponents. But in contests where the lines are less clear, we feel that a Democrat is necessarily a better risk as a national lawmaker...
This year's gubernatorial contest in Massachusetts is no exception to this tradition of exploiting the body politic, even though this year both opponents are college trained. The issues that divide Democrat Foster Furcolo and Republican Sumner G. Whittier are essentially aged versions of the rallying cries of the last two decades--expanded social welfare legislation and the mismanagement of the other party's years in office. The campaign blueprints are the same too, although the candidates are both relative newcomers to the top level of state politics. The Democrat must pull the heartstrings with his pension plans and labor...
...Democrat, who went to Yale (1933) and was graduated from Yale Law School, nevertheless underlines his kinship with the Italo-American, whose estimated 300,000 votes represent an attractive plum in a state where 30,000 pluralities are common. A former U.S. Representative, he served as State Treasurer for two and a half years under Governor Paul Dever, whose sopping brow inundated the nation's TV sets during his keynote speech four years ago at the Democratic National Convention. Furcolo, who has been criticized as "Dever's man" for his fair-haired position in the last Democratic Administration, lost...
...prostate operation, jovial Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson sorted through a pile of well-wishers' messages, waved one that especially tickled him: "Dear Sir: I wouldn't vote Republican for less than $100,000 . . . but I like you and hope you get well soon. [Signed] A Democrat." "Engine Charlie" later allowed that he was feeling fine and drew guffaws from reporters by boomeranging a bit of Democratic drollery about the health issue. "I might flippantly say," quipped Wilson, "that I'm qualified now to run for some kind of a high office." In a pronouncement recorded...
Died. James Percy Priest, 56, craggy, countrified onetime (1926-40) reporter for the Nashville Tertnessean, who resigned (1940) when Democrat Joseph W. Byrns, his paper's candidate for re-election from Tennessee's Fifth Congressional District, voted to delay the draft for 60 days, ran and beat Byrns as a New Dealing independent, was elected seven more times, won respect from both parties as Democratic whip (1949-53), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign and Interstate Commerce (since 1953), and as a campaigner for public health measures; after surgery for a duodenal ulcer; in Nashville...