Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present Democratic state of mind is quite different. The Democratic leaders start from the same assumption as the Republicans-that Eisenhower will run and will be almost impossible to beat. This is a discouraging and demoralizing prospect even for a party as vigorous as the 1954 elections proved the Democrats to be. Naturally, a Democrat in the position of National Chairman Paul Butler wants to keep alive the hope that Eisenhower will not run in 1956. After all, a national committee has to keep on collecting funds and holding out the hope of power and patronage...
...Nominated Texas Democrat James Weldon Jones to be a member of the U.S. Tariff Commission, succeeding Oscar B. Ryder, 70, retired...
...dingy Tokyo headquarters of the Democratic Party, the sounds of celebration began almost with the first returns. Though the Democratic Party is only three months old, it stole the thunder, many of the members and thousands of the votes of the recently dominant Liberal Party. Each time a Democrat's election was clinched, party workers pounded a lacquered drum and the crowd shouted, "Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!" By morning they had banzaied themselves hoarse...
...about on the peaks of northern Iran. Suspecting that Douglas, from his lofty perches, had stolen a peek or two northward, the Russians promptly and peevishly accused him of spying on them. Now, however, unpredictable Moscow is willing to let him look around some more. This summer, accompanied by Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, counsel to the Senate's Government Operations Committee, Douglas will enter Russia from Iran, reconnoiter by car through six Soviet republics in central Asia...
Inside the Bundeshaus the members' gong sounded, summoning 151 Socialists and 333 members of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian-Democrat coalition to the climactic debate on West German rearmament. For five years the debate had raged, setting German against German, until the arguments were worn to clichés and all that was left was passion. But though the Deputies' minds were made up, and the result a foregone conclusion, more than 50 eager politicians had put down their names to speak. The debate was, in effect, the last opportunity for each side to arrange the record...