Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hubert Humphrey masterminded his-Minnesota Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party to a sweeping 1958 victory (TIME, Nov. 17) and still managed to roll up 20,000 miles campaigning for Democrats in i& states. He is an avowed Fair Dealer, but separates himself from past liberal flops by explaining that he is a "visceral" liberal-strong on farm supports, reclamation, competitive coexistence with Russia, civil rights, etc.-as opposed to an "intellectual" or "New York" liberal - inter ested "only in civil rights and immigra tion." As a Senator. Humphrey has worked hard and with some success at winning the regard of conservative...
...there is such a thing as "deserving" a presidential nomination, then Lyndon Johnson is probably the most deserving Democrat. A Senate leader of superb skills (TIME, March 17), he pushed, pulled, cajoled and bullied Senate Democrats along a moderate course that made for a party image overwhelmingly approved at the polls. In the 1958 elections, when Democratic organization showed up dramatically against Republican confusion, a major fundraising, advice-giving role was played by the Johnson-bossed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Johnson personally campaigned in five states where Democrats ousted Republicans from six Senate seats: two in West Virginia, one each...
Territorial Labor Commissioner Henry Benson, 48, for Congress v. former Attorney General Ralph J. Rivers, 55. Seaton hardly needed to mention the second G.O.P. senatorial candidate, Juneau Attorney R. E. Robertson, who is certain to be defeated by popular Democrat Bob Bartlett, for 14 years Alaska's territorial delegate to Congress...
...National Guard, trumpet sounds, bugle calls, the beating of drums, the shooting of guns, and the cheers of a mixed collection of Boston Irish such as Harvard Yard had never imagined. He reminded the assembly that the last President to address a Harvard anniversary celebration, Grover Cleveland, was a Democrat, that President Roosevelt, sitting behind him, was a Democrat, and that he, Curley, was likewise a Democrat. Who, he queried, were they...
...Dealing afternoon New York Post (circ. 351,439) hemmed and hawed until five days before the election and then endorsed Democrat Averell Harriman for re-election as New York Governor. At that eleventh hour its minced-hearted editorial ("Whatever his failures and shortcomings . . . we favor Harriman's re-election") read as if a myopic makeup man had misplaced several paragraphs. Post readers thought all this rather strange, but it was only the beginning...