Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats are bringing their audience into sharper definition, and their prime target is the ever-growing group of relatively affluent and educated middle-class citizens. The party is well aware of its weakness here. In October, the Democratic National Committee conducted polls in California, Pennsylvania and New York and found Johnson running well ahead of all the major Republican prospects among voters earning less than $7,000 a year. Citizens in higher income brackets tended to favor the Republican candidates. But much of the middle class is considered to be uncommitted to either party, to swing from election to election...
...gyrating popularity, the Democrats are going into their big year with a good deal of optimism. At a National Committee meeting in Chicago last week, the mood was definitely upbeat. One element in the shift is Johnson's renewed pugnacity, as evidenced in his public statements since November. California National Committeeman Eugene Wyman, who does not always go all the way with L.B.J., observed: "There was a lot of antagonism toward the President [among Democratic officials] a few months ago, but there has been a strong turnaround...
Cleaning City Hall. The action revolved around the award of the world-trade-center contract without competitive bidding to Real Estate Developer Keith Smith, 41, onetime (1962) Methodist Layman of the Year for Southern California-Arizona, who was charged with five counts of bribery and five of perjury. Smith, a member of the city commission on human relations, is accused of paying off, through complex financial transactions, four harbor commissioners in return for the $12 million contract...
Most of White's appointments have been excellent. His own personal staff is very strong and Hale Champion, the new Boston Redevelopment Authority administrator, is a veteran of California politics. If White were willing to call upon these people for advice and to ignore those who'd drag photogenic cots into the Mayor's office and declare a state of emergency every time a traffic light fails to work, he'd probably have many more successes like the Welfare financing incident and very few blunders like the hasty and careless attempt to remove Commissioner McNamera...
Virginia-born Davies joined Standard Oil of California as an office boy at 17 after graduating from high school in Fresno; he rose to be a director at 32 and senior vice president at 38. Though many oilmen had tagged him as a future president, Davies and Standard parted company after his wartime service as Deputy Petroleum Coordinator under the industry's old scourge, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. Davies then founded American Independent Oil Co. (he has since sold his interest in it), later bought control of American President Lines and San Francisco's Natomas Co., which dredges...