Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time for books. He views the world through habitually squinted eyes and speaks so softly that reporters must strain to hear him. He wept openly after Nixon's 1960 defeat and did so again, perhaps for different reasons, after Nixon's famous "last press conference" following the California gubernatorial election of 1962. With newsmen, he has preserved a reputation for efficiency and impartiality that will undoubtedly be more than a little useful in the months to come. In fact, Copley reporters covering Nixon campaigns used to grouse that Klein refused to grant them the slightest favors over other...
Check), money-grubbing ministers (The Profits of Religion), land exploitation by the California petroleum industry (Oil!), subservience of universities to business (The Goose-Step), cowardly book publishers (Money Writes!), the prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti (Boston), the baronial life of Henry Ford (The Flivver King), and the ruthlessness of mine owners in the 1913-14 Colorado strike (King Coal). Sinclair also crusaded for birth control and childlabor laws, and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union...
EPIC Campaign. As a Socialist, Sinclair ran unsuccessfully in California for the U.S. Senate in 1922 and for Governor in 1926 and 1930. He switched to the Democrats and won their nomination for Governor in the 1934 primary by 436,000 votes. His EPIC platform-End Poverty in California-was probably as radical as that of any major party in U.S. history: applying Marxist theory, he proposed to turn over to the workers some of the means of production-in this case, California's Depression-idled farms and factories. Led by the Los Angeles Times, his alarmed opposition charged...
...mile "Farewell Tour" of the U.S., Lady Bird Johnson strolled through the cathedral-like majesty of the redwood country of northern California. Pausing at the base of a 657-year-old giant, she placed a plaque designating the 27,000-acre Redwood National Park, a project that has pitted the Government and conservationists against private lumber concerns that have been felling great swatches of the dwindling redwood stands. "This is the crowning moment of a crusade that has lasted two generations," she said. "It would be a tragedy if tomorrow's tourists find a repetition of yesterday...
...numbers. They are tearing down goal posts and marching on downtown Columbus chanting, "We're Number 1!" For Woody is a big winner again; with a 50-14 victory over Michigan, he rounded off a 9-0 season record, earned the right to meet the University of Southern California in the Rose Bowl. Hayes' reaction to the A.P. football poll which now ranks Ohio State the nation's top college team: "We deserve...