Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kefauver, whose decision climaxed a triumphant threeday, 800-mile stump of Wisconsin, figured he had everything to gain and Stevenson everything to lose. A Stevenson defeat, with nearly every top Minnesota Democrat backing him, could be his Waterloo. Even a fairly strong showing by Estes would tarnish Adlai's luster...
...very ethics of a professional man, you know, dictate that he should sit in his office and wait for people to come to him, whether he's doing any business or not." But Patterson also was able to go out and make people like him: in 1954, while Democrat Richard Neuberger was winning his Senate seat by 2,462 votes, Republican Patterson overwhelmed his Democratic opponent by 88,343 votes...
Late this month Attorney General Brownell will send to the Congress specific proposals for the fact-finding commission and other civil-rights legislation, e.g., a stronger right-to-vote law. A group of Congressmen led by Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott and New York Democrat Adam Clayton Powell, a Negro, has been mapping plans for bringing the Administration program to a floor vote...
With or without a shotgun, Pearl deserves the title. In her 15 years as superintendent, she has built a reputation as the most adroit political battler for education that Washington has ever known. So adroit has she become, in fact, that many a Democrat had hopes that she would run for governor next fall. It would have been a spectacular race, for even the Republican hopeful, Attorney General Don Eastvold, admitted: "She'd be a formidable opponent." This week, however, Pearl announced that she had only one office in mind. She intended to seek re-election to the post...
Politics v. Partisanship. In 1940 a caravan of 50 cars descended on her home to persuade her to run for the badly neglected post of state superintendent of public instruction. Since then, she has harassed and goaded governors, both Republican and Democratic. She is a Democrat herself, but when one official told her to "get rid of all those reactionary Republican school directors and you'll get all the money you want," she flatly refused. Says Pearl about her campaign methods: "I have been accused of playing politics. I have. But I absolutely will not play partisan politics...