Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas' Sixth District, where the margin of Incumbent Republican Wint Smith over Democrat Elmo J. Mahoney was so narrow (233 votes) that the committee recommended an investigation of Mahoney's charge of irregularities...
...Arkansas Fifth (Little Rock) District, where Segregationist Independent Dale Alford defeated respected eight-term Democrat Brooks Hays after a write-in campaign attacking Southern Baptist Convention President Hays's moderate stand on integration (TIME, Nov. 17). Protesting the outcome last week was not Hays but John F. Wells, publisher of the Arkansas Recorder, a Little Rock weekly and Hays's longtime friend-and longtime political critic. Charged Wells* in a well-documented complaint: 1) Alford write-in stickers were delivered to election officials along with ballots and ballot boxes; 2) contrary to law, the stickers...
Splitting along regional lines, the committee's two Republicans and Massachusetts Democrat Thomas O'Neill recommended that Alford's seat be denied him until the charges were investigated, and two Southern Democrats wrote a minority report protesting the seat denial but agreeing that "further investigation is warranted." The vote presaged a bitter fight between Southerners and Northern liberals over the Fifth District's seat when the House convenes next month...
POLITICS : Democrat Harry Truman, appearing at the National Press Club last week, had explained his estranged relationship with Ike this way: "I gave him hell when he didn't knock [Indiana's now-retiring Republican Senator] Jenner off the platform after he called General Marshall a traitor.* He's been mad at me ever since-and I don't give a damn." Said the President: "I think that most of you have found that I have had a little bit too much sense to waste my time getting mad at anybody . . . And to say that...
...test it. Ike was not surprised at the range, since such a distance is within theoretical reach of the rocket engines that powered Sputnik. The President was more interested in Humphrey's report on Khrushchev's general manner, physical appearance, tone of voice. Democrat Humphrey left the President's office to savor the experience of occupying the center of the world's biggest Republican news stage as White House correspondents crowded around him, five-deep. Later, rounding out the acclaim, State Secretary John Foster Dulles called with a well-done message from Walter Reed Hospital...