Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sizzler. Into this delicate situation Charlie Wilson thrust his heavy thumb, outraging Senators of both parties by impugning the motives and dignity of the august U.S. Senate. Democrat after Democrat arose to denounce Wilson; several of them demanded his immediate resignation. Republicans for the most part sat in embarrassed silence...
Maine's Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie is a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), genial, boyish (42) Democrat with a demonstrated flair for the political upset in a traditionally Republican stronghold. Last week, 21 months after he achieved the improbable by vaulting into the Statehouse over a faction-ridden G.O.P., he sauntered unopposed through the state primary and seemed as popular as ever...
North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges, a courtly textileman who came out of retirement to enter public life four years ago, likes to keep his books straight. Assured of re-election after romping through the May 26 primary with a record 401,082 votes, popular Democrat Hodges last week proceeded to clear up his accounts with a businesslike gesture that sent chills through other politicians across the country...
While he was strongly helped by the support of almost every important organization Democrat in the state (which he also had in Minnesota), Adlai made a stack of political hay on his own by spending more time with the people and less with the phrases, by lightening and brightening his speeches, and by rubbing more elbows. Still sensitive and a little selfconscious, Stevenson was not completely at home in his new campaign methods, and at times he was embarrassed. In Los Angeles' Pershing Square, for example, he approached an old man sitting on a bench and said...
California. Not a single G.O.P. candidate for Congress won in the Democratic primary under the state's cross-filing system (although three Democrats won both nominations). In the Senate race, bland, middle-of-the-road Republican Thomas Kuchel (rhymes with treacle ), completing Richard Nixon's unexpired term, cross-filed for a second try: he polled 1,274,000 votes on the Republican ticket to win the nomination over cross-filing Democrat Sam W. Yorty, Los Angeles lawyer and ex-Congressman. On the Democratic ticket, State Senator Richard L. Richards, 39, free-swinging, liberal disciple of Representative James Roosevelt...