Word: charivari
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This meeting, and a similar one the next night in nearby San Benito, where 153 professed Democrats bolted their party, were the latest instances of a new sort of Texas political charivari: the "resignation rally." Out of such a rally in Fort Worth came some 600 signed resignation cards; at Harlingen about 150 switched; at Littlefield, 126. Rallies are now being held almost weekly, to the delight of G.O.P. leaders fired up by last May's election of Republican John Tower to the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Lyndon Johnson...