Word: berte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic National Committee. The experts say that dual primaries do not necessarily discriminate against blacks. A study of nearly 200 state elections in Texas, for example, did not disclose a single instance of a candidate's losing because of his race or ethnicity. Georgia Democratic Party Chairman Bert Lance says he is prepared to "go to the wall" to defend the system. Party leaders have a more immediate concern: that Jackson will angrily stalk out of the convention if his demands are not met, taking with him the Democrats' chance to win back the White House...
...state rewrite of election laws. Jackson replies that the party and its nominee could pledge to attack runoff primaries in court as violations of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. In any case, white Southern Democrats would fiercely resist an attack on runoffs. Says Georgia Democratic Chairman Bert Lance: "We are a majority-vote nation." Lance professes to be a friend of Jackson's but asserts that if Jackson presses an attack on runoffs at the convention, "he will run into a fellow who will go to the wall with...
...team was not immediately renamed, but the Indianapolis Colts sounds as hollow and sad as the city of Baltimore must feel. Johnny Unitas. Gino Marchetti. Lenny Moore. Jim Parker. Raymond Berry. Art Donovan. Alan Ameche. Bill Pellington. Jim Mutscheller. "Big Daddy" Lipscomb. Bert Rechichar. Buddy Young. The "sudden death" game of 1958. "Let's go, you Baltimore Colts . . ." No room for all of that in a moving...
...Harry Vaughan, accepted a freezer from a manufacturer and survived the uproar. Dwight Eisenhower fired his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, for giving Government favors to an industrialist and taking a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug from him. Jimmy Carter defended his Budget Director and crony, Bert Lance, until Lance quit under charges that he had permitted relatives to overdraw their accounts in a bank he had headed. And then, of course, there were Richard Nixon's Watergate transgressions...
...slowing Mondale's drive toward an early lock on the nomination. To do so, Jackson would have to show unexpectedly well on "Super Tuesday," March 13, when primaries will be held in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and three other states. "His next move is critical," said Georgia Democratic Chairman Bert Lance. "He still has the basic problems of money and organization...