Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whirl & Wheedle. Before that, some Northern Democrats, suspecting Johnson of losing interest in liberal legislation, had begun to fume. He seemed overattentive, they thought, to procedural efficiency, party unity, the friendship of fellow Southerners and the ambitions of Lyndon Johnson. When the Democrat-controlled Senate Banking and Currency Committee threw out the Eisenhower Administration's plan to build 35,000 public-housing units a year for two years and substituted a high-spending four-year program of roughly 100,000 units a year, the question arose: Would Leader Johnson perform his nimble best to get it through the Senate...
...Norman Dodd, research director of the Reece Committee, charged that the Democrat-dominated committee "had readily accepted excuses concerning grants to Communists and that foundations had not been asked why they did not support projects of a pro-American type...
CONGRESSIONAL PROBES into aircraft company profits since the Korean war are moving along slowly, may never get off the ground because they run head-on into Democratic demands for bigger plane production. Louisiana Democrat Edward Hebert, who heads the House Armed Services subcommittee investigation, is quietly looking at company records. Texas Democrat George Mahon, who is in charge of the House Appropriations subcommittee investigation, is still recruiting investigators, will probably not have his facts in hand until January...
...Tallahassee, Fla. (pop. 38,002), Leo William Bowmall, vice president of Manhattan's Bulkley Dunton Pulp Co., decided to try to buck the trend. He and other backers put up more than $250,000 to launch the Tallahassee Capital Post, to compete with the 50-year old Tallahassee Democrat (circ. 14,014). Last week, after barely 68 days of life, the new paper died. Even though the Post was small, with a circulation of a little more than 4,000, losses ran as high as $1,000 a day. When Backer Bowmall suspended last week, $30,000 in operating...
...stock market last March, Wall Street doubted that the end result would be friendly-and, as a result, the market tumbled. But the report that the Fulbright committee issued last week, along with recommendations for changes in security regulations, had little in it to worry Wall Street. Instead, Democrat Fulbright and his majority colleagues centered their fire on the Federal Reserve Board...