Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folks were nodding when you failed to scotch Representative Bob Poage's crack about Joseph taking gold vessels from his brethren [March 5], which shows how ignorant of the Bible a Texas Democrat can be. Joseph took nothing from his brothers. On the contrary, he gave generous gifts to them. As for "gold vessels," the only thing of its kind mentioned in the Biblical story was one cup which was not gold but silver. Joseph ordered it to be placed in the sack of his full brother, Benjamin, so he would have a pretext to keep him in Egypt...
...Says Texas' Poage: "Being from a silver-producing state in the West, Mr. Benson probably knows more about Joseph than I do. Possibly Joseph was a Free Silver Democrat...
...last previous full vote came on Jan. 27, 1936, when the Senate voted, 76-19, to override Franklin Delano Roosevelt's veto of the soldier bonus bill. The one vacancy in the Senate at that time was caused by the assassination of Louisiana Democrat Huey Long; the present vacancy was caused by the death of West Virginia Democrat Harley Kilgore...
...least through next month, Cartoonist Gray is devoting the strip to a "thorough and penetrating analysis" of teen-age violence. Editors and parents find the story line about Annie's adventures among street hoodlums a little too authentic for comfort. Last week the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Columbus' Ohio State Journal both suspended Annie until she finds better companions. Explained the morning Globe-Democrat on its front page: "Annie . . . features muggings, switchblade knives and language that we think does not fit into [this] type of newspaper." Half a dozen other dailies from Buffalo to Salt Lake City...
Sammy learned to gauge his customers. The late Joe McAuliffe, then covering politics for the Post-Dispatch and later managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, once invaded Sam's bedroom for an urgent loan. "My pants were on the foot of the old brass bed." Bronstein recalls. "I told Joe to help himself to whatever he needed. He was a great newspaperman, and I didn't have to ever worry about an honest count from...