Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edge of the post-Minnesota vacuum, one Democrat loomed larger than ever before. He is New York's Governor Averell Harriman, the New Dealing multimillionaire with wide experience in the Federal Government and an important victory at the polls (in 1954, over Senator Irving Ives). As a fast-moving, "inactive" candidate, Harriman has been the subject of complimentary remarks by former President Harry Truman and the beneficiary of considerable spadework by Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio...
...strong and loud advocate of desegregation, Averell Harriman might be considered unacceptable by many Democrats in the South. There are already rumbles of trouble in the South, e.g., the South Carolina Democratic state convention last week recessed until after the national convention and urged Democratic organizations in other Southern states to follow suit. This could set the pattern for a third-party movement, if Southerners are dissatisfied with the national convention's nominee. If the North and South split on civil rights, Harriman, or a similarly positioned Democrat, e.g., Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams, might emerge...
...from Senator Fred G. Moritt, New York City Democrat, came a note of caution...
...lesson of Minnesota in the minds of many powerful figures in the Democratic Party is that no Democrat can compete with President Eisenhower on the middle ground of American politics. Therefore, they conclude the party must revert to its radical tradition and pick somebody who will wage a slashing attack on the Republicans from the left, even if this alienates the Democrats in the South...
...this is indeed the case, the party may have to turn to a genuine candidate who could convince the voters that his beliefs, his experience and his character really qualify him to occupy the White House. The only. Democrat who fills these specifications at the moment is Governor Lausche of Ohio...