Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas' Lyndon Johnson. The most powerful Democrat, the most acceptable candidate to Southerners. If Democrats decide they need the South and if the majority leader wheels and deals well with the Senate's big, new Northern bloc, he could become a compromise candidate...
...bell rang out-it was hooked up to an emergency wire that the Socialists did not know about. Just as suddenly, up popped Vice Speaker Saburo Shiikuma. He announced quickly that the session would be extended 30 days, and then bobbed down again, to an outburst of Liberal-Democrat banzais...
Among the shards of her career as a Congresswoman was one smoldering chunk that Minnesota's 45-year-old Coya Knutson might have expected. Her vacillating husband, who supported her opponent in September's primary but threw his weight behind Democrat Coya before her defeat in last week's election (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was bringing a $200,000 alienation-of-affections and slander suit against Billy Kjeldahl, 30, the lady's administrative assistant. Billy had not only "interfered" with his marital rights, charged 50-year-old Innkeeper Andy; he had also called the plaintiff "an impotent...
...ambitious newspaper job of forecasting was done by the New York Times, which sent reporter survey teams to 13 states in the pre-election weeks, went back to some areas for last-minute rechecks. While the Times carefully qualified many of its bets, e.g., by forecasting that New York Democrat Frank Hogan would beat Republican Kenneth Keating in the New York Senate race unless Rockefeller's plurality exceeded 200,000 (it was 557,000), the paper's far-ranging forecasts were more right than wrong...
Timesmen called the Democratic turn accurately in Indiana. In Wisconsin they correctly picked Democrat William Proxmire for re-election to the U.S. Senate, but muffed the Governor race. In Arizona, after predicting that Democrat Ernest McFarland would unseat Republican Barry Goldwater, the Times took a second look, cautiously rated the race (which Goldwater won handily) a "toss-up." It missed Hugh Scott's Republican victory in Pennsylvania's Senate race, and Republican Senator John Bricker's defeat in Ohio. Getting right down to the congressional level, the Times stubbed its forecasting toe in some cases...