Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As round as a hoot owl's eye, the hunter's moon rose in its full phase last week, and political hunters by the score burst into feverish bush beating, suddenly aware that the season was all too short. The first crucial presidential primary-New Hampshire's...
Massachusetts' youthful Jack Kennedy, still the fustest-and fastest-running Democrat, busied himself flushing delegates' votes in the canebrakes of Louisiana, went north to work his way through Wisconsin and Illinois, and headed toward heavy speaking dates in California two weeks hence. Missouri's Stuart Symington was...
California is a mouth-watering morsel for any presidential aspirant. With 81 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention, it shares with Pennsylvania the party's second-strongest honors (first: New York with 114). And since taking office nine months ago, California's able, amiable Governor Edmund G...
In the six weeks since the Democratic Congress passed the stiffest labor bill in history, the Senate-bred Democratic presidential hopefuls have seldom missed a chance to explain themselves to labor. Last week three of them (all voted for the bill) turned up at the United Automobile Workers annual convention...
Died. Cinemactor Errol (Captain Blood) Flynn, 50; of a heart attack; in Vancouver, B.C. A carefree hedonist who recently described himself as a man who had "seen everything twice," he was a sort of U.S. saloonfolk hero to movie fans who once made him one of the ten biggest box...