Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philadelphia. Yaleman Richardson Dilworth, 61, World War I combat marine who helped run Republican corruption out of Philadelphia back in 1947 and started prodding a dying city back to life, won his second Democratic term by knocking off the most tireless Republican hopeful of the day: Harold Stassen. Dilworth, who had only to rest on his achievements (and the backing of all three Philadelphia newspapers), did not have to take out after Stassen; Harold, 52, did it all by himself. A disappointed presidential and gubernatorial contender in Pennsylvania, the onetime Minnesota boy-wonder Governor could not find a legitimate issue...
Salt Lake City. Left for dead last November when he ran third in the three-man race for the U.S. Senate, Dinosaurian Sometime Republican J. (for Joseph) Bracken Lee, 60, twice Utah's Governor and six times Salt Lake City's mayor, roared back to political life by blasting corruption, unions, the U.N., federal taxes and foreign aid, defeated Democratic State Senator Bruce Jenkins, 32. To Jenkins' warnings that Salt Lake City would shrivel under the leadership of a man behind the times, the voters sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy...
...scare him out by withholding and refusing funds for the committee. Result: the national committee is in financial straits, is two months behind in the rent for its Washington headquarters, forced to beg for day-to-day handouts to meet the office payroll. Last week Chairman Butler struck back at his tormenters with a characteristic ultimatum. State organizations that do not pay up the joint $1,370,000 they owe in overdue quotas for 1957-59, he promised, will be paid off by inferior seating and housing arrangements at the Los Angeles convention next July...
Dissenting, the U.S. Justice Department re-entered the case; it had pulled out last May when the FBI probe established that the federal kidnaping law had not been violated. Determined to defer no more to Mississippi's judicial machinery, the U.S. fell back on the only remaining federal weapon, two seldom used sections (241 and 242) of Title 18, U.S. Code, indicated that it would ask a federal grand jury in Biloxi for indictments charging the mob with violation of Parker's civil rights and conspiracy to deny his legal rights. The Greenville Delta Democrat-Times called Mississippi...
...Frightened." Last week, after new Transport Minister Ernest Marples had hailed M1's first $59 million link as "a powerful weapon," the highway took on the appearance of a battleground. Said Marples, hurrying back to the safety of London: "I was frightened." Though the throughway is soundly engineered-for high speeds, it soon became plain that British drivers...