Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter how much flag-waving you do for your boy Dick Nixon, the truth of the matter is that the only Republican who will beat any Democrat in 1956 is Earl Warren...
...organization headed by left-of-center U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey), but decisions about other primaries would have to wait. When a reporter pointed out that there had been talk about Senator Humphrey as a likely candidate for Vice President, Stevenson covered the field: "I think he is an admirable Democrat and a most competent and gifted man. I have said, I think, the same thing about some half-dozen by this time. I will have to get some new adjectives...
...Dealing Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming likes to play the role of a giant killer with a special shillelagh cocked for big business. Since General Motors is a giant -the biggest, most profitable corporation in the U.S. -it was the logical target last week for Democrat O'Mahoney's Senate antitrust subcommittee. Ostensible purpose of the hearing: to "appraise the antitrust laws" and ascertain "needed amendments...
...Jenner. In Indianapolis, the Craig-backed Republican candidate for mayor, James Birr, had won a bitter primary fight over a candidate backed by G.O.P. Mayor Alex M. Clark, who is anti-Craig. Clark was nominally for Birr in the general election, but his heart was not in it. Democrat Phillip L. Bayt won by 16,000 votes. The defeated Birr sulked: "It is clear-cut evidence that you can sulk your way into socialism...
Died. Martin P. Durkin, 61, Secretary of Labor (Jan. 21 to Sept. 10. 1953) and only Democrat in the Eisenhower Cabinet, president of the A.F.L. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters union since 1943; after long illness following brain surgery; in Washington...