Word: californianism
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...primary battle would create one of the ding-dongest political fights in California's history, all to the detriment of the Republican Party. Beyond that, as they all know as well, the statehouse is a good stump from which Governor Bill Knowland could lay his plans to fight Californian Dick Nixon for the 1960 presidential nomination...
...wife, Californian Jane Foster, the daughter of the retired medical director of the Cutter Laboratories, was a graduate of Mills College ('35), became an abstract painter of sorts, joined the Communist Party in 1938, married a Dutch foreign service officer and lived in the Dutch East Indies. Where or how Jane Foster lost her first husband is a mystery, but she met and married Zlatovski in Washington, D.C. in 1943, then unaccountably remarried him three years later...
...Californians had a good case of Orwellian creeps. While no Big Brother was watching them, they had flatly been warned that almost everyone else was-or could be-listening. The state senate Judiciary Committee, hoping to draft 20th century laws to cope with ingenious invasions of privacy, set many a Californian on his ear with a report on a lengthy study of electronic eavesdropping and wiretapping, found that for all the benefits of electronic enterprise there have also been some disturbing developments. Among them...
...were moseying around the state last week, setting up barricades for the inevitable shouting that will break out when Governor Goodwin Knight defends his job against tall-in-the-saddle U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland next year. Somebody is bound to get hit, and one somebody might be fellow Californian Richard Nixon. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Coming Attraction...
...take California's statehouse away from his fellow Republican, Governor Goodwin J. Knight, next year. If this is done, any reasonable scenario calls for Knowland to head straight for the presidential nomination in 1960-and run head-on into an even bigger battle with another ambitious Californian, Vice President Richard Nixon...