Word: civic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took over as head of the New Rochelle School system. Combining the intensity of a revivalist minister with the glad handing techniques of a backwoods Congressman, Hunt began speaking tours, set propaganda bonfires in newspaper articles, addressed civic club meetings--did everything, in short, to arouse public interest and squeeze money from city and state legislatures...
...Democrats and ten Republicans will recount the ballots in the Commissioner's office; representatives of both the Young Democrats and the Cambridge Civic Association, which supports the PR system, will be present...
...defeat State Controller Arthur Levitt, the bosses' choice, in a primary to win the Democratic nomination. But the primary gave Wagner what he badly needed: an issue. Ignoring the past, the mayor promised to put an end to "boss rule" if reelected, vowed to clean up the civic mess that had developed in his own regime, accused Opponent Lefkowitz of being the tool of Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and other G.O.P. leaders. A drab, hand-waving campaigner, Lefkowitz hammered hard at the Wagner scandals, but for all his hammering failed to impress the voters as a plausible, forceful alternative...
...hours a day, he logged a remarkable 60,000 miles in crisscrossing New Jersey. He visited each of the state's 21 counties at least twice, concentrating on Republican strongholds. By his own estimate, he shook some 300,000 hands; he turned up at so many political and civic luncheons and dinners that he gained ten pounds. Backed by a Democratic kitty estimated at $800,000, he appeared on scores of radio and television spots, made a crisp, pleasing impression...
...Louis Miriani, 64, would be re-elected in a breeze. After a decade on Detroit's governing Common Council and four years in the mayor's office, Miriani seemed to be an institution. He had the support not only of Detroit's daily newspapers but of civic leaders ranging from labor officials to Henry Ford II to Democratic Senator Patrick McNamara. Opposing Miriani in the nonpartisan election was an unknown named Jerome P. Cavanagh, 33, a lawyer who had never before run for public office. At first, Cavanagh's chief political asset seemed...