Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though you did not say that I was supporting Brown, I've received a number of calls and letters from people who got that impression. I am not supporting Brown's presidential candidacy, nor could I begin to consider such support until he renounces his current endorsement of...
But he says he is not impressed with the polls. He has seen leads evaporate in days and he can recite the numbers: "Carter was ahead of Ford by 32 points after the convention in 1976 and that was a close election. Nixon was ahead of John Kennedy by twelve...
He took the same line at the state Republican convention when he said SALT II was "fatally flawed" and should be renegotiated. But he opposed SALT II, said Reagan, because it does not "fairly and genuinely reduce" the number of nuclear weapons, and he would support a treaty that would...
She describes a Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, a group of stolid conventional young burghers who are genuinely puzzled by the furor around them. Why don't students wat a Jaycee group on campus? Why can't the girl who takes a full page ad in Daily Variety to advertise...
DIED. Homer Capehart, 82, three-term Republican Senator from Indiana (1945-63); from complications following a hip fracture; in Indianapolis. The son of a tenant farmer, Capehart made a fortune selling jukebox equipment and got into politics after organizing a 1938 "cornfield convention" of 20,000 Republicans. As Senator, he...