Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years I had been looking in vain for a worthy Democrat. Now my quest is ended. The silver-tongued Governor Frank Clement of Tennessee, in his keynote speech opening the Democratic Convention, came up with the greatest political slogan ever conceived by the mind of man, to wit: "The Democratic Party-dedicated to the greater glory...
There, in his family's home, the Vice President watched his renomination on television. Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. Herter, proposed by Stassen as the man to stop Nixon, himself made the nominating speech. Stassen was one of the seconders. An ex-Democrat from Nebraska, one Terry Carpenter, backed down after nominating a fictitious "symbol of an open convention" named Joe Smith (thereby setting off a spate of "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Joe Smith" editorials in the U.S. press). Governor "Goodie" Knight choked down his gorge and made the California announcement of 70 votes for Nixon. The nomination...
Today most literate Washingtonians know from billboards plastered from Seattle to Pysht, Humptulips, Fishtrap, Washougal, Tiger and Nooksack that the state is in the middle of a classic campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate-a kind of modern-day fork in the road. One direction leads to Democrat Warren Magnuson, who is staking his fight for re-election on a record of performance of over twelve years in the Senate, and promises a comfortable status quo, only more so. The other leads to Arthur Bernard Langlie, longtime governor of Washington, who promises to work in the Senate...
Maryland. Now that Democrat Millard Tydings has dropped out of the field (TIME, Aug. 27), lackluster Republican Senator John Marshall Butler has the right of way. Last week Baltimore's Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, Maryland's Democratic kingpin, sifted through the roster for a glad Tydings substitute, listed as one contender none other than Millard Tydings's wife, Society Matron Eleanor Davies Tydings...
...Campaigning for governor in Texas, Democrat Price Daniel complained: "I don't know how many of you saw or heard Senator Wayne Morse when he spoke last night at the Democratic National Convention, but he sits right next to me in the Senate−and that's another good reason for my wanting to come home...