Word: brack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brack Lee's cranky passion for cutting budgets and taxes makes him a hero to some Utahans, a crackpot to others. Back in 1956, top Utah Republicans decided that then-Governor Lee was a "disruptive influence" in the party, wrecked his hopes for a third term. Lee took revenge in 1958 by running for the U.S. Senate as an independent, gathering so many normally Republican votes that able Republican Arthur V. Watkins lost his Senate seat to Democrat Frank Moss. With the state's Republican organization unforgivingly angry at him, Lee seemed politically dead-until...
Last week, in view of the hisses, hanged effigy and burning cross, Lee once again seemed a politician without a future. But then, Brack Lee had proved before that the man with the black-ink figures can often have the last word...
...Novelist Hunt sees it, the ideal state's biggest taxpayers should be its biggest voters. The real fat-cat taxpayers would each get seven votes, the lower 40% brack-eteers only a vote apiece. But Author Hunt defends his system not as plutocracy but as incomeocracy: "It is the taxpayer who gets the bonus, not the rich man . . . It's like a corporation: the greatest stockholders have the greatest votes." In Alpaca, it all comes out like this: " 'Will you help me further this plan for just government? Will you do me the honor of working with...