Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply cannot send this bill to the President," Massachusetts' gnarled Joe Martin told the waverers among his colleagues. "It's a bad bill, and I'm sure he won't accept it." On the other side, Texas' egg-bald Sam Rayburn and other Democratic leaders were telling the doubtful among the Democrats that the bill might provide the only way to get a Democrat elected President in November. A key proposition in the Democratic reasoning: if Congress should pass the bill and the President should veto it (as many Democrats expected and hoped he would...
...first vote, against a Republican leadership motion to send the bill back to conference for revision, was 238 (211 Democrats, 27 Republicans) to 181 (167 Republicans, 14 Democrats). At midpoint in the roll call the outcome was clear; Louisiana Democrat Allen Ellender. chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, strode onto the floor to thump the back of his House opposite number, North Carolina's Harold Cooley. Actual passage of the bill, 237-181, was anticlimactic. Within six hours the Senate rolled it through. 50 (35 Democrats. 15 Republicans) to 35 (31 Republicans, four Democrats), and sent...
...Oregon, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, home from Washington to start running hard for Democrat Wayne Morse's U.S. Senate seat, walked into an unexpectedly tough fight in his own party. While McKay has been winding up his Cabinet duties, Philip Hitchcock, 51, public relations director of Lewis and Clark College, has been wringing Republican hands from Hell's Canyon to Astoria, and gaining strength in rural areas where McKay has lost friends because of the Administration's power policies. "Everything will be all right," said a McKay worker confidently, "when Doug gets out and meets...
...fact, Lubell believes (as he explained in the Wall Street Journal last October) that almost any other candidate, the late Robert A. Taft included, could have won, albeit by a smaller margin than Eisenhower's. The nation was ready to take any Republican v. any Democrat because of angry opposition to a long list of disturbing Truman Administration policies, topped by Korea...
...Post's sharpest cut into the elephant's hide appears daily on the editorial page and in 150 other U.S. papers: the brilliant political cartoon by Herblock, 46-year-old Chicago-born Herbert Lawrence Block, No. 1 U.S. cartoonist, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner. A left-wing Democrat, Herblock almost quit the Post in 1952 because it was supporting Eisenhower, did not do any cartoons for the paper during the week before the election...