Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman Governor who insists that his only ambition is to run California well, Governor Ronald Reagan has mapped out quite a national itinerary for himself. By year's end, he will have delivered speeches-or at least his basic "Speech"-in Illinois, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Nebraska, Oregon, Kentucky, Texas, Washington, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, and probably Connecticut and Florida. At every turn, he will likely repeat to reporters: "I am not a candidate. I am not running for President...
...Republicans jammed into the Municipal Arena for another $100-a-plate affair, while several thousand more paid $5 apiece to listen from the balcony. Reagan, who may have been raiding Bob Hope's gag file, started off with a string of japes: "We have some hippies in California. For those of you who don't know what a hippie is, he's a fellow who has hair like Tarzan, who walks like Jane, and who smells like Cheetah...
Howling Dog. Reagan, for his part, ebulliently went back to state problems before embarking on another tour of fund raisers. His rhetoric certainly remained colorful. Labor leaders protested when Reagan allowed convicts to help harvest California fruit and vegetable crops, but Reagan at a press conference pointed out that the union had failed to provide sufficient manpower to bring in the crops before they were in danger of rotting. Said Reagan of the union leaders: "Sometimes they remind me of a dog sitting on a sharp rock howling with pain, who is too stupid to get up." Then he ordered...
Allport is survived by his wife, Ada, a son, Dr. Robert Allport, who is a physician in California, and three grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Christ Church, Cambridge, with burial to follow
...took its case to the Immigration Department of California, claiming it was illegal to import workers in this fashion. The department responded by deporting 15 of these immigrant workers a day. Thirty more scabs arrived by bus every morning. As one Immigration official reportedly explained, "We have a community responsibility." The strike had been broken...