Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...politics," do you mean what's going on with the government, or what's going on with the social revolution, or my politics as a human being in terms of getting work in the society? In other works, if I'm a Democrat or Republican? I don't understand what you mean, really...
...Pacific as a Navy lieutenant during World War II, Carswell might have figured that it was time to leave rural Irwinton, and politics was a way to do it. When his political bid failed, Harrold and his wife Virginia moved to her home town of Tallahassee. Carswell, a Democrat, was persuaded by a local newsman to take Eisenhower's side in a radio debate with an Adlai Stevenson backer. Soon he became known as Ike's advocate in Florida, and when the Republicans took office, Carswell was named a U.S. Attorney. He became a Republican...
...Senate that Republicans place their greatest hopes. While the factors and faces can change drastically by November, a number of interesting races are shaping up. Among them: OHIO. Democrat Stephen Young, 80, is retiring; two of the state's most popular Republicans are bruising each other in their rush to take his place. James Rhodes, the highly successful two-term Governor, and Congressman Robert Taft Jr., who hopes to follow in his famed father's footsteps, are headed for a punishing primary that only Democrats will enjoy. Despite allegations of misconduct leveled against him by LIFE magazine, Rhodes...
...session of Congress will begin this week, and it could very well turn out to be the biggest one yet for the leading scourge of the financial establishment, Wright Patman. For most of his 42 years in Congress, Texas Democrat Patman, 76, has flailed away at banks and the Federal Reserve Board as the main sources of almost every conceivable economic trauma. Now that those institutions are being severely criticized because of the current credit scarcity, Patman, as chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, is flexing his political muscle as he rarely has before...
...Died. John B. Hynes, 72, Massachusetts Democrat who in 1949 defeated James M. Curley for mayor of Boston to finish off one of the nation's most powerful big-city machines; of a heart attack; in Boston. First appointed acting mayor by the Governor and the state legislature for five months in 1947 while Curley was in jail, Hynes defeated the Boston boss in his own right two years later; he went on to serve until 1960, giving the city good, honest government and inaugurating a vast, urgently needed urban-renewal program...