Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Much Doubt. But more pulled Kennedy back to West Virginia last week than economics and nostalgia. The President was specifically on hand to speak for veteran Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey, 76, whose main claim to fame during nearly 20 years on the Hill is having once thrown a punch at Harlem's Representative Adam Clayton Powell (too soft to inflict permanent damage). Bailey is engaged in a desperate fight in a newly created district against popular Arch Alfred Moore, 39, the state's lone Republican in Congress. Few people thought that Kennedy's speech would affect...
...Campaign and the Candidates (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The first of a series of eight programs on U.S. politics, this one examines the role of the national party chairmen, including Huntley-Brinkley interviews with Democrat John M. Bailey and Republican William...
Major Lawrence Bailey, 38, who had been assistant U.S. military attache in the Laotian capital before his capture in March 1961, was still weak from injuries suffered when he bailed out of a plane that crashed with seven other U.S. servicemen in a mountainous eastern province of Laos. Unable to walk without assistance, and barely able to talk, Bailey said that he had been locked alone in a "blackcell" for the past eleven months, was subjected to "continuous questioning." The only other U.S. serviceman released by the Pathet Lao was Sergeant Orville Ballenger, 28, a member of a U.S. Army...
...interested in politics, and a mutual friend introduced him to Bailey. As it happened, Bailey desperately needed someone to run for Congressman at large on the ticket with Ribicoff, who was seeking re-election as Governor. Kowalski seemed to fit the bill: he had a good record, no political enemies, and an unmistakably Polish name to appeal to the heavy concentration of Poles in Connecticut's industrial areas. Bailey forced Kowalski on the Democratic convention, and Kowalski won in November. In 1960 he was re-elected with 657,680 votes, the biggest total in state history...
...Connecticut to put the Teamsters' seal on Kowalski's candidacy). He also got ideas about the Senate, and while Ribicoff played cozy (he still has not formally announced, hopes to be drafted at the Democratic state convention next week), Kowalski went to work. His old sponsor, John Bailey, now also Democratic national chairman, has tried every sort of persuasion and pressure to get him out of the race, without success...