Word: cienega
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California, where he hopes to win his party's nomination for Congress from the 26th District in spite of his formal admissions of wholesale adultery (later denied), Candidate James Roosevelt found the going rough. Protesting his endorsement by the district's Democratic Council, the South La Cienega Democratic Club withdrew from the parent group with the blast: "On the basis of [Roosevelt's] unique attitude toward the Seventh Commandment . . . we would rather not be a party to this reckless gambling of our present Democratic seat in Congress...