Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wyzanski, who is a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy and the Ford Foundation, is a registered Democrat. His appointment therefore would have given increased bi-partisanship to the delegation, and in the event of a Democratic victory in November, he could have served as liaison to the next administration...
...Daddy's Hands. In California Adlai Stevenson's supporters had to sell him as more liberal than Kefauver. To ward that end, they imported an entirely different breed of Democrat than the Floridians brought from Mississippi. From New York they summoned onetime (1944-50) U.S. Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas and Eleanor Roosevelt to testify as "character witnesses" for Stevenson's liberalism, particularly on the civil-rights issue. As any performer in the political circus knows, flying cross-country from the hands of Sam Wilhite and Daddy Sikes to the trapeze platforms of Helen Douglas and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Turkish press was fitted for an authoritarian straitjacket last week by Premier Adnan Menderes. The government quickly whipped a new press bill through its Democratic Party caucus, and a Grand National Assembly committee approved it. This week, if the Democrat-dominated Assembly passes it as expected, the new law will confront Turkish editors and publishers with a hard choice: drop all criticism of the Menderes regime or face fines up to 10,000 lire ($3,600 at the official rate) and jail sentences up to three years...
...Oregon Teamsters' representative, Clyde Crosby-whom the Oregonian revealed as an ex-convict-admitted that he had tried to get the mayor to fire Police Chief Jim Purcell, but only, he said, because the chief was in cahoots with Rack eteer Elkins. Cried District Attorney Langley, a Democrat elected in 1954 with strong Teamsters' support: "Reports that I have plotted with the Teamsters are a pack of lies." He charged that the tapes were doctored and spurious, accused Racketeer Elkins of trying to blackmail him with them...
...Capitol Hill's battle over export controls was not over; it is just beginning. After three months of investigations, much of it in secret session, Arkansas' Democrat John L. McClellan and his Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations are readying a detailed report on the whole program of trade in strategic goods. Key finding of the McClellan committee: after 1954, when the Eisenhower Administration decontrolled some 200 items on the strategic list under heavy pressure from Britain and other allies, the Russians got strategic products and processes that saved them both research, manpower and years of development time...