Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nebraska has only elected two Democrats to state and federal offices in the past 15 years since the Omaha World-Herald has backed the G.O.P. candidates [Sept. 5]. If it really wants to test its power, it should try to elect a Democrat in this state, where it is practically a crime to smuggle a Democrat across the border...
Building a Team. The Democrat most obviously affected by the changed situation is Adlai Stevenson, now 55, the 1952 nominee and the party's present front runner. While Stevenson himself was vacationing in Jamaica recently, his followers were in full swing. Chicago Attorney Stephen Mitchell, former Democratic National Chairman, was spending a third of his time politicking for Stevenson -and giving free rein to his own ambition to be governor of Illinois. One of Mitchell's law partners, Hy Raskin, was working full-time on behalf of Stevenson...
ANTITRUST PROBE of General Motors will be made by West Virginia Democrat Harley Kilgore's Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee. Kilgore has no specific complaint against G.M., but will study it as a case history of big business...
...some politicos, who have always found bankers a popular target, the merger trend is cause for alarm. Cried Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: "An alarming concentration of financial power in the hands of a few banks." Celler is busily pushing a bill to restrict mergers, and has lined up top Administration support behind it. Both Trustbuster Stanley N. Barnes, who has investigated some of the mergers, and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin have come out in favor of the bill. While they feel that the mergers probably have not caused any lessening...
Died. E. Lansing Ray, 71, longtime editor and publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; of a heart attack; in Rye Beach, N.H. Ray sold the newspaper to Manhattan's S. I. Newhouse last spring (TIME, April 4), but remained as publisher...