Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politico, had revealed himself as a man of sound politician's instincts. His veto of the ill-smelling natural gas bill last February and of the farm bill, his utter frankness about his health, and last week his swift appointment of the Senate's most distinguished Democrat, Georgia's retiring Walter George, to a NATO ambassadorship (see below) -all these have turned resoundingly to his political account...
...approved (377-0) the $33,635,066,000 Defense Appropriation Bill (which includes the President's added-starter request of $248 million for 29 more B-52s). An amendment to force on the Administration an extra $1 billion for still more B-52s was shouted down after Texas Democrat George Mahon declared that the Air Force lacked both crews and bases to cope with so sudden a production step-up in intercontinental bombers...
...Senator's Senator. In the national capital, which had become George's spiritual home, there was a different reaction. State Department officers, from John Foster Dulles on down, hurried through the procedure to offer Democrat George a high-ranking diplomatic post. Before the Senator announced his decision, President Eisenhower telephoned to offer him the new position of U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. George agreed to accept, but did not say when he would take the job. In the hand of an Assistant Secretary of State, the President rushed over a "Dear Walter" letter, praising...
...Clark College and was on the campaign trail. Although McKay moved in with the urging of G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall and the blessing of President Eisenhower, Hitchcock steadfastly refused to make way for McKay. He insisted that he, not McKay, is the man who can beat Republican-turned-Democrat Wayne Morse in November...
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, kept his place while the bailiff explained who he was. "That makes no difference," snapped the judge. "Clear the court...