Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Con-Con Battle. Romney's No. 1 objective during his first months in office has been to persuade the citizens of Michigan to adopt a new state constitution. The old one, written in 1908, has been amended 67 times, runs nearly three times as long as the federal Constitution and, Romney argues, acts as a drag on Michigan's progress. It was the fight for a new constitution that brought Romney from automaking to politics. Having started the compact-car revolution with the Rambler, Romney in 1959 sparked Michigan's constitutional convention (called Con-Con for short...
Allied with Romney in the battle to get the Con-Con constitution adopted was an array of civic and professional organizations, as well as the Republican Party. The most important opponents were the Democratic Party and the United Auto Workers. What the opponents objected to most strenuously was the proposed constitution's provisions on legislative reapportionment. At the convention. Democrats had argued for legislative representation based solely upon population, but Con-Con adopted instead a complex provision giving 80% weight to population and 20% to "land area." The area factor would give extra representation to the state...
Love and Larceny. Vittorio Gassman is a gasser in a grab bag of disguises, ends up as a con man conned con amore...
...Never Conned Twice. No sooner had he married the President's youngest sister, Jean, in 1956 (Cardinal Spellman officiated), than Smith got involved in the Kennedy political fortunes. In 1958, he left his job as vice president of his own family's tugboat firm to run the Boston headquarters of Jack's Massachusetts Senate campaign. Up to then, Smith's only political connection was through his grandfather, William E. Cleary, who built the tugboat fortune and 40 years ago served three terms in Congress. Steve caught on to politics fast. Said a veteran of that first...
...Anthony Holland) is a leaky, self-expressing drip, the kind that leaves a brown stain in a washbowl. At play's end, simple-witted Bernie is out in the once pristine West shilling with a tom-tom for some once noble Indians who are now corrupt enough to con the tourists with their fabricated trinkets. This scene contains the essence of the Hellman vision of the American experience...