Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Time. But, reasoned G.O.P. strategists, why be blamed for killing off Acheson when a good many Democrats were working to the same end? Some lame-duck Democratic casualties had already made it plain to Harry Truman that Acheson had hurt their party badly. In the House there was a small rear-guard defense by a loyal handful ("He and his accomplishments will live in history long after the names of his detractors are forgotten," said Missouri's 34-year-old Congressman Richard Boiling, an ex-G.L), but in the Senate, not one Democrat rose last week to defend...
...changes in the paper. Ernest Boyd MacNaughton, liberal president of Portland's Reed College (TIME, May 3, 1948) as well as chairman of the board of Portland's First National Bank, will stay on as president. The editorial staff will be virtually unchanged. As is his custom, Democrat Newhouse will keep his distance from most editorial decisions (most of his papers are independent Republican), but will keep close tabs on everything else as he does on his other papers...
This Mao who spoke with Wu's harsh voice was not an "agrarian reformer" (as the U.S. State Department had called him), nor a "town-meeting democrat" (as Owen Lattimore had called him), nor a Tito faithless to Moscow (as London and Washington had hoped). The Mao who spoke through Wu was China's most successful warlord since Kublai Khan. He laid down the terms for all Asia's subjugation. Upon that, Mao's senior partner, Stalin, prepared to build for the enslavement of the West. Together, Stalin and Mao had traveled more than halfway...
Died. Louis Leon Ludlow, 77, onetime Washington correspondent (several Indianapolis papers, the Columbus, Ohio Dispatch) who became a Congressman himself (a Democrat from Indiana) after 27 years of reporting on Congress, held the job for 20 years; after long illness; in Washington. A militant pacifist and isolationist, Ludlow believed that war could be prevented by taking away Congress' power to declare it, in 1938 almost got through a measure (the Ludlow amendment) that would permit a declaration of war only if the voters approved it in a referendum. Franklin Roosevelt intervened and the bill missed enactment in the House...
...final verdict of his fellow editors is that Roosevelt was no democrat during the time he was on the paper; for example, he refused to stop running the list of men who made the various clubs. The next year other editors stopped "that concession to snobbery...