Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia. In steelmaking Bethlehem, a precinct that had voted for the winner in every 20th-century election went for Kennedy, 576-380, and the news was flashed to Hyannisport by direct telephone wire. Kennedy was building toward a 600,000 lead in Chicago's Cook County-presumably more than enough to sew up the state. New York City was going predictably Democratic. And not even in upstate New York, where Republicans hoped to offset Kennedy's expected city bundle, was the news good for Nixon. After liking Ike in both 1952 and 1956, Syracuse was giving Kennedy...
...Cook County Judge Otto Kerner, handpicked to run for Governor by Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine, won a smashing Illinois-wide victory. Many normally Republican newspapers endorsed him instead of plodding, scandal-splattered G.O.P. Incumbent William Stratton, trying for a third term against his own party's wishes...
...father was once a popular state attorney general, is married to the daughter of Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin Roosevelt). Kerner has an impressive six-year record of his own as a reform-minded Cook County (Chicago) judge who helped revamp local judicial procedures, led a successful fight to modernize state election statutes. His key campaign promises: more aid for schools, hospitals and depressed areas downstate...
...Brien, conferring in subdued tones with little knots of reporters and looking the image of a politician, explained that Nixon's edge in Illinois (which he had just obtained) was not disturbing, because Mayor Richard Daley had 200 late-counting Cook County precincts in reserve. A little later, when Daley threw in 100 of these and Kennedy regained a 20,000 vote lead, a few report betrayed their leanings by cheering. "Thank God for the bosses," said...
...want to impair the pension rights of any present employee," says Newhouse, "but I want the profits hereafter to be used for the improvement of the physical plant and of the newspapers themselves." As far as Custodian Cook is concerned, Newhouse can whistle somewhere else for a meal-at least until 1967. Said Cook last week: "Newhouse has met a bunch of New England Yankees up here who are just as stubborn...