Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reconsidering their candidacy." Later, he urged Kennedy to "leave the primaries to me," hinted that at the convention "some kind of settlement" might be arranged. He also announced plans to enter two more primaries-in Indiana and South Dakota-in addition to those in Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon and California...
Squeezing & Bleeding. But the condition of the huelguistas remains depressed and depressing. The union claims 17,000 members across the nation. In California, Chavez' forces last August struck the Guimarra Vineyards Corp., which farms 12,000 acres near Delano...
...easily-and his opponents have a head start in others. Partly for this reason and partly because of his desire to display "harmony" with Eugene McCarthy, Kennedy arrived at a curious strategy. He will support McCarthy in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, but run against him in Nebraska, Oregon, California and perhaps elsewhere. Prospects in the more significant races...
...CALIFORNIA, June 4. The 174-vote package, to be given away on a winner-take-all basis, is the biggest prize of the primary season. The beneficiary, however, is difficult to predict. "There are," says Pierre Salinger, "too many Democratic parties in California." Among the factions within factions, there is no viable Johnson organization. After protracted, ludicrous bickering-to the point where two Ronald Reagan supporters were contending for places on the Johnson slate-a roster of presidential supporters was finally formed. McCarthy, as elsewhere, enjoys support from many old Stevensonians and New Lefters, but Kennedy may attract some...
...leader and prophet of "la Huelga," the California grape pickers' 35-month-old strike in the verdant San Joaquin Valley, Cesar Chavez, 41, has combined hard-knuckled organizing tactics with a brand of mysticism peculiarly his own. A Mexican-American who from boyhood worked in the vineyards himself, Chavez patched together his tatterdemalion National Farm Workers Association in 1965, organized scores of picket lines, boycotts, church meetings, marches and sing-ins to lift his people out of peonage...