Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Javits went back: he was re-elected three times, and by 1954 had clearly earned the dubious right to run against Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. for attorney general of New York. Some New York Republican leaders were reluctant to accept Javits because of his liberal record. Finally Tom Dewey arose at a party caucus that lasted until 4 a.m. "Who else," demanded Dewey, "have we got?" Javits not only ran against F.D.R. Jr., but he walloped him by 170,000 votes and was the only Republican on the state ticket to breast the Democratic tide. Manhattan's Javits...
...last week, when Democrat Bob Wagner was still cautiously, methodically planning his campaign (which he will open formally this week), Republican Jack Javits was off and running. On Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Jewish ritual forbade his riding in a car. He therefore set off on foot from the swank, twelve-room Park Avenue apartment where he lives with his strikingly handsome wife Marion and their three children (Joy Deborah, 8, Joshua Moses, 6, and Carla, 1). Exposing his conservatively tailored $200 suit to a driving rain, he walked across a twelve-mile radius on Manhattan...
...neatest dismissal of the keynote speech at the Democrat Convention was made from the pulpit by a Jacksonville minister, who said: "Mr. Clement has slain the Republican Party with the jawbone...
Broderick was one of many: in the nation's first 1956 general election* the reign in Maine fell plainly on the Democrats. Democratic Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, running for a second term against Willis A. Trafton Jr., 37, speaker of the state house of representatives, had been conceded an edge, but he was highly surprised by his 179,697-to-123,784 victory. Lewiston Lawyer and Democratic State Chairman Frank M. Coffin fared even more spectacularly by winning, for the first time in 22 years, the Democratic congressional seat in the industrial (Lewiston) Second District. Democrat James...
...Muskie's popularity was only part of the story. The figures told the rest: the voting strength of both parties was up, but the Democrats were up more. Republican Trafton, for example, polled 10,486 votes more than 1954's G.O.P. candidate; Muskie pulled in 44,024 more votes than he had gotten in 1954. In the First District, Republican Congressman Hale got 10,700 votes more than in 1954; Democrat Oliver got an additional 14,418. In the newly Democratic Second District, the Republican earned an extra 2,531 votes over 1954, the Democrat an extra...