Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats roar when Truman whales away at Dwight Eisenhower: "Any Democrat can beat him." They delight in his jibes at Republicans: "The country needs a Democratic Administration as bad as it ever did in history. [Pause.] No, it couldn't be worse than in 1929." They grin when he describes his talents: "I never was overly blessed with brains, but had a lot of energy and liked to work." They approve when he lectures parents: "I believe in the woodshed treatment ... I got plenty of it when I was a boy. I don't know whether...
Between the Eyes. Missouri's Truman was born and bred in the Democratic whirl. One of his treasured memories is the scene of his father raising the American flag over the house in Independence to celebrate the election of Grover Cleveland in 1892; Fighting Democrat John Truman vowed to keep Old Glory flying for as long as a Democrat was in the White House (as it happened, four years...
...bedlam when William Jennings Bryan ("He was one of my heroes") stampeded his second convention with his silver-tongued, silver-oriented (16 oz. of silver to 1 oz. of gold) oratory. In 1924, then a member of the Jackson County Court under the auspices of hard-knuckled Democrat Boss Tom Pendergast, Politician Truman sat with ears growing numb under his crystal-set earphones. He listened to almost every word of the 14-day, 103 -ballot convention in Madison Square Garden (Alabama-"24 votes for Oscahhh W. Undahhhwood") that finally nominated John W. Davis to run against Cal Coolidge (and Charles...
Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement. As the keynote speaker at the Democratic convention, Clement hopes that his stem-winding, evangelistic style of oratory will inspire the delegates to nominate him for Vice President, and last week he tactfully sought fatherly preconvention advice from Mr. Democrat Harry Truman in Kansas City. Clement's chances for 1956 are dim, but his Democratic future, at 36, is bright...
Beyond its obvious implication that a Catholic on the ticket would have helped in 1952, Bailey's paper does not attempt to assign reasons for Stevenson's relatively poor showing among Catholics. Few Democrats believe that Stevenson's divorce lost him any substantial number of Catholic votes. But most Catholic Democratic leaders believe that the general charges of Democratic "softness toward Communism" were especially effective among Catholics. Since those charges are sure to be revived in 1956 to a greater or lesser degree, many a Democrat stands with John Bailey in the belief that a Catholic vice...