Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instant the cameras were staring wide-eyed at the best TV fight in a long while. In Pittsburgh, an orator invoked the gods of Republicanism and was promptly conked on the head by a picture of Dwight Eisenhower, which fell from the wall. In New York, Democrat Averell Harriman may have broken a coarse record by calling the state's G.O.P. leaders liars some 15 times in as many minutes...
Philadelphia's Democratic Mayor Joseph Clark Jr., about to begin a dinner speech, was summoned to an air-raid drill that just happened to be called by Governor John Fine, who just happens to be Republican. Oregon Republicans muttered darkly that someone-a Democrat, no doubt-had punctured the huge "Ike" balloon they planned to float over Portland. John Roosevelt, barnstorming for the Republicans, had an interesting comment: "I come from a traveling family-and the standards are still set by my mother." In New Jersey, Democrat Adlai Stevenson said that Vice President Richard Nixon had campaigned with "smut...
Wheat & Rice. "Pakistan is moving away from democracy," commented the London Economist, "but no democrat who knows the facts would at the moment have it otherwise." The facts are that Pakistan is a "geographical monstrosity" that not only endures but somehow radiates a buoyant young confidence...
...kind of medicine it needs most. McKinnon announced that Robert K. Straus, a member of the family that controls R. H. Macy & Co., heads a group that is planning to help finance the News-by putting an estimated $500,000 into the paper. A New Dealer and lifelong Democrat, Straus, like McKinnon, wanted to come to the aid of the only Democratic daily in Los Angeles. His investment is as much an act of political devotion as a way to make money in the newspaper business. Buying into the News, says Straus candidly, "is not like buying General Motors stock...
Republican candidate Allot defeated the Democrat's Carrol. Carrol conceded just after 4 a.m., Boston time...