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Word: democratizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Primary Question. In Marion, Iowa, D. H. Smith announced that he would be a candidate for state senator, said that he had not yet decided whether to run as a Republican or a Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...from the start the open hearing was unexpectedly rough. Out of the blue, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, committee chairman, began carping about the witness' G.O.P. partisanship in old political speeches. Then Wayne Morse took over. He lashed at Mrs. Luce's statement, voiced during the 1944 presidential campaign, that Franklin Roosevelt was "the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it." Witness Luce conceded to Morse that "the language was very intemperate, and would not have been used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Compromised Mission | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...speech, Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen provided some unintentional comic relief. Arguing that it was unsporting to hold Mrs. Luce's old political speeches against her, Orator Dirksen cried: "Why thrash old hay or beat an old bag of bones?" As the galleries guffawed, Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey played for laughs. "I must rise to the defense of the lady," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Compromised Mission | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...ANGELES HERALD-EXPRESS: Senator Morse objects-to anyone criticizing him, but he is free to criticize everyone. Wayne Morse, ex-Republican, now Democrat, can dish it out with a shovel, but he cannot take it with a teaspoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies: THE LESSON SEEMS PLAIN | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who checked into the Brown hotel fortnight ago. Humphrey visited long enough to portray himself as the only Fair-Dealing, New-Dealing Democrat available. He left with good wishes and the suspicion that he could get California support when and if Pat Brown steps aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Brown for President? | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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