Word: democratizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Louisiana's Democratic Governor Robert Kennon, casting about for candidates more to his liking than-Adlai Stevenson (whom he refused to support in 1952), named Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche and Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Anderson, a Texas Democrat, as possibilities. Kennon placed Lausche "in a class with men like Senator Byrd, Governor Allan Shivers and former Governor James Byrnes...
...marriage vows and of the phrase, "in sickness and in health." The bill, as passed by the state legislature, would have permitted divorce from a spouse confined to a mental institution for a period of five years, even though there might be temporary interruptions in the confinement. Last week Democrat Ribicoff vetoed the bill...
After 13 days of interregnum, Italy had a new Premier. Christian Democrat Antonio Segni, 64, a lean-featured, soft-voiced professor who looks like a country gentleman of 50 years ago, took over last week where his predecessor Mario Scelba left off, and managed to put together again Italy's four-party, middle-of-the-road coalition...
...Angered and frustrated by the police, many of the Africans seemed willing to acknowledge the leadership of the Congress of Democrat Reds," cabled TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes. "This is the tragedy of non-white politics in South Africa: Nationalist officialdom crushes all African leadership, extreme and moderate alike. The ordinary black man is left so frustrated that he is willing to listen to anyone who curses the government loudly enough. It is a readymade opportunity for the Communists...
...curb waiting for their turn at the bar." Gussie, his father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks. Ever since Gussie Busch has been a Democrat ("I'll be damned if I'll bite the hand that fed me"), thus giving some latter-day verisimilitude to Horace Greeley's remark, circa 1860: "I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers were Democrats...