Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However they may value integrity above party leadership, the eight governors-elect are going to bolster their state party organizations tremendously. They will enhance the attractiveness of party work for potential politicians and increase the prestige of the Democratic party before the public. In Maine and Pennsylvania, where no same young Democrat ever bothered to aspire to state office, the Democratic governors may spawn a dual-partisanship that has always been sadly lacking. In other states where Republican rule has been shorter but no less flabby, party "patronage" could be the ideal antidote for early symptoms of corruption...
...term elections gives some indication of public sympathy for the Administration. Mid-term Congressional elections usually provide a similar indication. But during this century, curiously enough, the results of the gubernatorial races have proved a better index of a party's Presidential potential than the Congressional races. When Democrats have been successful in the mid-term races for the governorships, the Democratic Presidential candidate has never lost his election. Yet no Democrat except Harry Truman has ever been able to win in a nation which has elected mostly Republican governors two years before...
Harlan, a Republican now serving as a U.S. Circuit Court judge, will, if approved by the Senate, fill the vacancy caused by the death of Democrat Robert H. Jackson...
...important impact on interstate commerce, there was no dissent. But when NLRB last week showed what it meant by turning down six of eight union requests for federal supervision of bargaining elections,* the decision divided the five-man board on straight party lines. Board Member Abe Murdock, former Democratic Senator, charged that the board was abdicating its responsibilities, and that the decision of the Republican majority amounted to a "usurpation of legislative power by an administrative agency.'' By this "wholesale slash," said he, "it seems probable that at least 25% and perhaps . . . 33⅓% of our past jurisdiction...
Split Ticket. In Denver, after passing out 250 matchbooks advertising his candidacy for the House of Representatives, Democrat Albert Cohen noted with horror that the books also urged citizens to vote Republican...